Mount Everest (Ultimate Fact Sheet )

Age of Everest:
Everest was formed about 60 million years ago

Elevation:
29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999

Name in Nepal:
Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky)

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

Mt. Everest rises a few milimeters each year due to geological forces

Everest Name:
Sir George Everest was the first person to record the height and location of Mt. Everest, this is where Mt."Everest" got its name from

First Ascent by a Woman:
May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col

First Oxygenless 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:
Babu Chhiri Sherpa 34, NP-16 hours and 56 minutes (5-21-2000)

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:
Temba Tsheri (NP) 15 on May,22,2001

Oldest Person:
Sherman Bull May,25,2001 -64 yrs
First Legally Blind Person:
Erik Weihenmeyer May,25,2001

Most Ascents:
Eleven, 24th May 2000 Appa Sherpa became the first person to climb Everest 11 times-Ten, Ang Rita Sherpa, Babu Chiri Sherpa all ascents were oxygen-less.

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)

Highest cause cause of death:
Avalanches-about a (2:1) ratio over falls

Country with most deaths on mountain:
Nepal-46

Most dangerous area on mountain:
Khumbu Ice Fall-19 deaths

First ski descent:
Davo Karnicar (Slovenia) 10-7-2000

Corpses remaining on Everest:
about 120

Longest stay on top:
Babu Chiri Sherpa stayed at the summit full 21 hours and a half

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.