Facts About Mt. Everest

the highest mountain in the world
11,346 summit ascents by 6,098 people until July 2022
Height: 29,028 feet( 8,848m) or five and a half miles above sea level. It is equivalent to the size of almost 20 Empire State Buildings.
Location: part of the Himalayan mountain range; straddles the border of Nepal and Tibet.
Named after Sir George Everest, a British surveyor-general of India. Other names: Sagarmatha in Nepali and Chomolungma in Tibetan, which means "Mother Goddess of the Earth."
Age: approximately 60 million years old.
Countries visible from the summit: Tibet, India, and Nepal.
First to climb to the summit: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953.

1921 — Dalai Lama allows the British reconnaissance party to visit Tibet and the northern side of Mt. Everest.
1924 — British explorers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared near the summit along the Northeast Ridge. They might have been the first to reach the Everest summit, but they never returned.
1949 — Nepal opens its borders, allowing mountaineers to summit the southern peak possible.
1953 — Hillary and Norgay reached the summit.
1963 — First Americans reach the summit.
1989 — First two women, both American, reach the summit
1990 — Sir Edmund Hillary's son, Peter, reaches the summit
1996 — Eleven people die during spring expeditions.