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STRANGE FACTS BEHIND MOUNT EVEREST

Posted by AMAZING FACTS at 7:04 AM

No one realized that MOUNT EVEREST was the tallest until 1856.

The official height of Mount Everest is 8848 meters or 29,029 feet, which is based on a 1954 ground-based measurement. However, in 1999, a National Geographic Society satellite-based measurement indicated that Mount Everest was about 2 meters (6 feet) taller.


Mount Everest is not standing still. Due to massive geological forces, it is rising at the rate of almost 1 centimeter (1/3 inch) per year - and moving northeast at about 6 centimeters (2 inches) per year.



In 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first humans to scale Mount Everest. Some say two climbers accomplished this feat in 1924, but the evidence is weak.

More than 2,200 people have reached the summit, but over 200 climbers died.A blind person, a one-legged person, a 15 year old, and a 70 year old have successfully made it to the top. And other adventurers have skied, snowboarded and hang glided down the mountain.

Climbing Mount Everest is not cheap. Commercial expeditions can cost climbers $60,000 to $75,00 each.

Don't call the mountain "Mount Everest" in Tibet or Nepal. That's British coinage. Tibetans refer to it as Chomolungma and Nepalese call it Sagarmatha.

 

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1 comments:

Amazing facts..
It was really fun to read.
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krishna kashyap av said...

November 14, 2009 at 6:13 PM  

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