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*PEAK* –>
*8848 METERS ABOVE ‘SEA LEVEL’*
(/ ‘28199 FEET’)
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(“tenzing norgay” + “edmund hillary” made the first official ascent of ‘everest’ in ‘1953’ using the “southeast ridge route”)
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(‘tenzing’ had reached ‘8,595 m’ (or ‘28,199 ft’) the previous year as a member of the ‘1952 swiss expedition’)
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(“mount everest” (also known in ‘nepal’ as ‘sagarmΔthΔ’ and in ‘tibet’ as ‘chomolungma’) is “earth’s highest mountain”)
(it is located in the ‘mahalangur’ mountain range in ‘nepal’ and ‘tibet’)
(its peak is ‘8,848 meters’ (or ‘29,029 feet’) above ‘sea level’)
(the ‘international border’ between ‘china’ (‘tibet autonomous region’) and ‘nepal’ runs across everest’s precise summit point’)
(its ‘massif’ includes neighboring peaks ‘lhotse’ (8,516 meters / 27,940 feet); ‘nuptse’ (7,855 meters / 25,771 feet) and ‘changtse’ (7,580 meters / 24,870 feet))
(in ‘1856’, the ‘great trigonometrical survey of india’ established the first published height of ‘everest’, then known as Peak XV, at ‘8,840 meters’ (or ‘29,002 feet’))
(the current official height of ‘8,848 meters’ / ‘29,029 feet’ as recognized by ‘china’ and ‘nepal’ was established by a ‘1955’ indian survey and subsequently confirmed by a ‘chinese survey’ in ‘1975’)
(in ‘1865’, ‘everest’ was given its official english name by the ‘royal geographical society’ upon a recommendation by ‘andrew waugh’, the “british ‘surveyor general’ of ‘india'”)
(as there appeared to be several different local names, ‘waugh’ chose to name the mountain after his predecessor in the post, ‘sir george everest’, despite george everest’s objections)
(‘mount everest’ attracts many climbers, some of them highly experienced ‘mountaineers’)
(there are 2 main ‘climbing routes’, one approaching the ‘summit’ from the ‘southeast’ in ‘nepal’ (known as the ‘standard route’) and the other from the ‘north’ in ‘tibet’)
(while not posing substantial technical climbing challenges on the ‘standard route’, ‘everest’ presents dangers such as ‘altitude sickness’, ‘weather’, and ‘wind’ as well as significant objective hazards from ‘avalanches’ and the ‘khumbu icefall’)
(as of ‘2016’, there are well over ‘200 corpses’ still on the ‘mountain’, with some of them even serving as ‘landmarks’)
(“why that’s SICK!”)
(“if by ‘sick’, you mean…”)
(“i mean ‘SICK’!”)
(the first recorded efforts to reach everest’s summit were made by ‘british mountaineers’)
(with ‘nepal’ not allowing ‘foreigners’ into the ‘country’ at the time, the ‘british’ made several attempts on the ‘north ridge route’ from the ‘tibetan side’)
(after the first ‘reconnaissance expedition’ by the ‘british’ in ‘1921’ reached ‘7,000 meters’ (or ‘22,970 feet’) on the ‘north col’, the ‘1922 expedition’ pushed the ‘north ridge route’ up to ‘8,320 meters (or ‘27,300 feet’) marking the first time a ‘human’ had climbed above ‘8,000 meters’ (or ‘26,247 feet’)
(tragedy struck on the ‘descent’ from the ‘north col’ when 7 ‘porters’ were killed in an ‘avalanche’)
(the ‘1924 expedition’ resulted in the greatest mystery on ‘everest’ to this day: ‘george mallory’ and ‘andrew irvine’ made a final summit attempt on ‘june 8th’ but never returned, sparking debate as to whether they were the first to reach the ‘top’)
(they had been spotted high on the mountain that day but disappeared in the ‘clouds’, never to be seen again, until mallory’s body was found in ‘1999’ at ‘8,155 meters (or ‘26,755 feet’) on the ‘north face’)
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(the chinese mountaineering team of ‘wang fuzhou’ / ‘gonpo vinhua’ / ‘qu yinhua’ made the first reported ascent of the peak from the ‘north ridge’ on ’25 may 1960′)
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