*Age of Everest:
Everest was formed about 50 million years ago
*Elevation:
29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999
*Name in Nepal:
Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky)
*In Tibet:
Chomolungma: (means: mother goddess of the universe)
*Named after:
Sir George Everest in 1865, the British surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15
*Location:
Latitude 27° 59' N.....Longitude 86° 56' E. It's summit ridge separates Nepal and Tibet
*First Ascent:
May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route
*First Solo Ascent:
Aug. 20,1980, Reinhold Messner, IT, via the NE Ridge to North Face
*First winter Ascent:
Feb. 17,1980 -L.Cichy and K. Wielicki, POL
*Mt. Everest rises a few millimeters each year due to geological forces
*First Ascent by a Woman:
May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col
*First Oxygen less Ascent:
May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge.
*First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both north & south sides:
Cathy O'Dowd (S.A.) South May 25,1996/North '99
*Fastest Ascent from South:
Pemba Dorjee Sherpa, Nepal-8 hours and 10 minutes May 21st 2004
*Fastest Ascent (north side):
Hans Kammerlander (IT) May, 24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp
*Youngest person:
Ming Kipa Sherpa (Nepal)-15 years old-in May, 2003
*Oldest Person:
Min Bahadur (Nepal)-76 years old-in May, 2008
*First Legally Blind Person:
Erik Weihenmeyer May, 25th 2001
*Most Summits:
Apa Sherpa's 19th ascent came in May 2009
*Best and Worst Years on Everest:
1993, 129 summitted and eight died (a ratio of 16:1); in 1996, 98 summitted and 15 died (a ratio of 6½:1)
*Most dangerous area on mountain:
Khumbu Ice Fall- 25+ deaths
*First ski descent:
Davo Karnicar (Slovenia) 10-7-2000
*Last year without ascent:
1974
*Corpses remaining on Everest:
about 120
*Longest stay on top:
Babu Chiri Sherpa stayed at the summit for 21 and ½ hours.
*Largest team:
In 1975, China tackled Everest with a 410-member team.
*Fastest descent:
In 1988, Jean-Marc Boivin of France descended from the top in just 11 minutes, paragliding.
*Only climber to climb all 4 sides of Everest:
Kushang Sherpa, now an instructor with Himalayan Mountaineering Institute
*First person to hike from sea level to summit, no oxygen:
11th May 1990,Tim Macartney-Snape, Australian
*Largest number to reach the top in one day:
50, on May 2002
*First person to summit Everest twice:
Nawang Gombu-Nepal(once with Whitaker in '63,and again two years later in '65) Gombu now works for the Himalayan mountaineering institute.
*The oldest woman to summit
Tamae Watanabe Japan (63 years old) - May 16th, 2002.
