Mount+Everest+Expeditions

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A Brief history of the mountain

The over 60 million year old mountain is the highest in the world, its summit being over 29,030 feet high. The mountain has many different names; in Tibet it is commonly reffered to as Chomolungma; in Nepal it is known as Sagarmatha; but in other countries it is named after Sir George Everest, who was at his time the surveyor-general of India. The first completed climb to the summit was made by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, in 1953. They had obviously planned and prepared for the ascent for years, and there work paid off when they had done what so many had failed to do. Also in 1953, Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans reached within 100 feet of the mountain, but fatigue prevented them from being the first to ascend to the summit. But, just because some of the attempts are successes doesnt mean they all are, in 1996 alone, 15 people died trying to climb the mountain and descend back down. On the 50th anniversary of the first climb to the top of the mountain, a record amount of people attempted to climb the mountain and reach the summit. media type="custom" key="691015"Please visit my friend Bob's sites on the Himalayan Mountain Range. Himalyan Mountain System, The Eight-Thousanders and Major Himalayan Rivers or my other pages Gear Needed to Climb Mount Everest, Facts on the Climbers Also [|click here for more information on what gear is needed to climb the mountain], or for specific info on the history **[|click here]**, or here for [|General info on the mountain] or [|More Everest info]