FACTS ABOUT MOUNT EVEREST

12 INTERESTING  (EXTREME) FACTS ABOUT MOUNT EVEREST

1. DUE TO GEOLOGIC UPLIFT MOUNT EVEREST GROWS 4 mm HIGHER EVERY YEAR
2. ONE OF THE 10 SUCCESSFUL SUMMITS WHICH ENDS IN DEATH
3. EVEREST WAS DISCOVERED BY GEORGE EVEREST IN 1841
4. OVER 235 PEOPLE HAVE DIED ON EVEREST
5. THE EVEREST SUMMIT IS JUST BELOW THE CRUISING HEIGHT OF A JET
6. THE OLDEST PERSON TO REACH THE SUMMIT WAS 76 AND THE YOUNGEST PERSON 13
7. IN NEPAL EVEREST MOUNTAIN IS KNOWN AS SAGARMATHA, IN TIBET IT IS CALLED AS CHOMOLANGMA'
8. FIRST TO CONQUER MOUNT EVEREST ARE EDMUND HILARY AND TENZING NORGAY IN 1953
9. THE TEMPERATURE ON THE MOUNT EVEREST NEVER GOES ABOVE FREEZING POINT
10. GREEN BOOTS(DEAD BODY)  INDICATES THE CLOSENESS TO THE SUMMIT
11. FIRST TWEET FROM THE TOP OF THE SUMMIT WAS SENT BY KENTON COOL IN 2011
12.  COST TO CLIMB MOUND EVEREST IS OVER $30,000