![]() ![]() One of the biggest dangers is the high altitude, and the area on Everest above 26,000ft is known as the "death zone." Spending too long in the death zone can cause "altitude sickness and even brain swelling. Five people died on the mountain that day, the most disastrous tragedy on Everest until an earthquake-caused avalanche in 2014. Two Nepalese Sherpa mountaineers, Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa, jointly hold the record for summiting Mount Everest more than any other person, having each climbed the mountain 21 times. However, climbing Mount Everest is an incredibly difficult feat, even for the most experienced mountaineers, and due to weather conditions, there's an extremely limited climbing season. During an attempt to summit Everest in 1996 - immortalized in Jon Krakauer’s book Into Thin Air - a powerful storm swept the mountain, obscuring visibility for the 23 climbers on return to base camp. High Adventure Expeditions notes that there have been over 5,000 people to successfully climb Mount Everest. However, according to National Geographic, despite the fact that they simultaneously reached the summit, Hillary was knighted for the endeavor while Norgay "only received an honorary medal." The first recorded people to climb Mount Everest were New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary and Nepali-Indian Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay on May 29th, 1953. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |