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Amazing Facts & Information about Mount Everest- The Highest Mountain on Earth Facts & Information about Mount Everest, General Knowledge about Mount Everest Mount Everest is the worlds highest mountain. Royal Geographical Society adopted mount Everest as the highest mountain in 1965. * Mount Everest was earlier known as Peak XV. * In 1852 an Indian mathematician Radhanath Sikdar first identified Everest as the highest peak of world.Before that Kanchenjunga was considered as the highest peak of world. * Mount Everest is not static.It is moving and it's height is also increasing.Mount Everest's height is increasing 4 mm per year and it is moving toward northeast at a rate of 3-6 mm per year. 1. In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest. To this date, people doubt whether Hillary did reach the summit as although photographic evidence of Norgay at the top was provided – that of Hillary was not. 2. The last year prior to 2015 that no one climbed to the Everest summit was 1974. 3. The mountain is named after George Everest – a retired Surveyor General who never saw the peak 4. In May 1975, Junko Tabei earned the ‘first woman’ title when she reached the top of the 29,035-feet mountain. 5. Doug Scott and Dougal Haston created the first ‘new route’ in September 1975 which was separate to that provided by Hillary and Norgay. The path was dubbed ‘England 1975’ as the duo were the first British nationals to reach the summit. 6. Mount Everest stands at 29,035ft, 10 times the height of the world’s tallest building – Burj Khalifa in Dubai. 7. In 1978, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler conquered the peak without supplemental oxygen. Messner later repeated and reached the summit alone. 8. The youngest person to reach the summit is Jordan Romero who climbed the peak age 13. 9. In 1980, Leszek Cichy and Krysztof Wielicki became the first to reach the summit in winter. Ignoring the recommended periods to climb, which are between April and June and September and October, the duo tackled the peak in February and battled against temperatures as low as -42 degrees. 10. In 1990, Peter Hillary – Edmund Hillary’s son – climbed to the summit, making them the first father and son duo to both complete it. 11. The oldest person to climb Everest is 80 year-old Yuichiro Miura of Japan. 12. The first two men to snowboard down the peak were the Frenchman Marco Siffredi and Austrian Stefan Gatt in May 2001. 13. In 2004, the fastest time climbed to date was set by Pemba Dorjee Sherpa 12 years ago. He set the time of eight hours and 10 minutes to reach Base Camp – a trek that would usually take climbers at least four days. 14. In May 2005, Didier Delsalle claimed to be the first helicopter pilot to land on the summit of Everest. 15. The temperature at the summit never rises above freezing. It averages at -36 degrees in winter and -19 degrees in summer. 16. The rock at the top of the mountain used to be on the seafloor - 450million years ago. follow me on twiter: https://twitter.com/saimkhan20005 follow me on facebook page: https://web.facebook.com/DailyUpdates-905311759556532/ follow me on facebook: https://web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100004287074398 follow me on website: http://dailyupdatepk.com/ subscribe my chanel !!!