Mount Everest PPT

1. Mount-Everest

2. • Mount Everest attracts many climbers, including highly
experienced mountaineers. There are two 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.
• The first recorded efforts to reach Everest's summit were made
by British mountaineers. As Nepal did not allow foreigners to
enter 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 m (22,970 ft) on the North Col, the 1922 expedition
pushed the north ridge route up to 8,320 m (27,300 ft), marking
the first time a human had climbed above 8,000 m (26,247 ft).

3. Facts of Mount-Everest
1. Everest is a massive 8848 meters tall – just below
the cruising height of a jumbo jet!
• The mighty Mount Everest was first measured in 1856 at
8840m tall. The height was then adjusted to 8848m in
1955, which is still the official height stated by the Nepalese
government. However, there is a discrepancy as the Chinese
declare the height of Mount Everest as 8844m.
• Scientists are currently in the process of remeasuring the
world’s tallest mountain, especially as it is thought the
height might have changed following the 2015 earthquake.
This work should be completed by 2020.

4. • 2. Everest is over 60 million years old.
• The mountain was formed when India’s continental
plate crashed into Asia. India’s plate pushed under Asia
and raised a huge mass of land upwards, creating the
world’s highest mountain rage; the spectacular
Himalayas.

5. • Mount Everest is now 8,848.86 meters high. Although Mount Everest
is the highest mountain above sea level, Hawaii's Mauna Kea is the
tallest mountain base-to-peak at 10,210m (33,500 ft), but only
4,205m (13,796 ft) is above sea level.
• Everest's Summit is not the farthest point from the Earth Center
either. The farthest point from the Earth’s center is atop Mount
Chimborazo (elevation 6,310 m) in Ecuador, South America.
• Earth is an obligated spheroid, which bulges at the equator about 21
km radically compared to at the poles.

6. • Mount Everest was first climbed on May 29, 1953, by Sir Edmund
Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal.
• The first attempt by a British team: 1921 (included George Mallory)
• First summit ascent: George Mallory, 38, and Andrew Irvine, 22,
disappeared on their way to the summit in 1924. Irvine's ice axe was
found in 1933 at 8,461m (27,760ft). Mallory's body was found in 1999
at 8,157m (26,760ft). Whether they reached the summit remains a
mystery.

7. • Sherpa is a people group who have settled on both sides of
the Himalayas. Living in mountainous areas with thin air, a unique
physical characteristic has been inherited by the Sherpa people:
increased hemoglobin production.
• This inherent factor, which allows them to function well in the
Himalayas’ low-oxygen environment.
• Sherpas have become the best guides on Mount Everest. They not
only lead the way for the climbers but also many Sherpas help with
carrying supplies for the climbers, as well as some rescue items,
camping equipment, etc.
• Their packs can weigh more than five times as much as ordinary
climbers’! A Sherpa guide gets paid US$5,000 upwards for an
expedition.