Transcript Mount Everest

Mount Everest
Contents
1. What is Mount Everest?
2. Where is Mount Everest?
3. How…
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… was it formed?
… does it stack up?
… do you get to the top?
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Key Dates
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…on Mount Everest
…of Mount Everest
4. Interesting Facts
5. Survival…
What is Mount Everest ?
This is the summit of Mt
Everest
• Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the
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world, it reaches up to 8848m. (There have
been arguments about the height).
Or is it? Hawaii's Mauna Kea, though, rises
33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the
depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring
from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest
mountain on earth. Not easy to climb from
base to top!
The first people to climb to the top of
Mount Everest were Sir Edmund Hillary
from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay
from Nepal. Hillary and Norgay reached the
peak on 29th of May 1953. Hillary had had
many attempts to climb Everest. His
attempts were made in 1951 and 1952. In
1953 he had reached the summit and the
queen knighted him for his achievement
and that is were he got his title “sir”.
Where is Mount Everest ?
• Mount Everest is found in the
Himalayas in Asia, Everest is
found in between Nepal and
Tibet. The Himalayas include
nearly 100 of the worlds tallest
peaks, is the worlds largest
chain of mountains and it
contains the world’s largest
land peaks. In Sanskrit
Himalayas means: Him - snow;
alaya - home.
Mt Everest
How was Mount Everest formed ?
• 60 million years ago when the
continent Laurasia broke up in to
lots of parts, India moved north
toward Asia then crashed. The
seabed between the two plates
was crumbled and pushed up to
create the mountains of the
Himalayas around the northern
rim of India. These plates are
still moving around 2.5 inches
every year which forces the
height of the mountains to
increase.
How does Mount Everest stack up?
Height
Continent
Mountain
Country and/or location
Feet
Meters
Asia
Mt. Everest
Tibet-Nepal
29,035
8,850
South America
Mt. Aconcagua
Argentina
22,834
6,960
North America
Mt. McKinley (Denali)
United States, Alaska
20,320
6,194
Africa
Mt. Kilimanjaro
Tanzania
19,340
5,995
Europe
Elbrus
Russia/Georgia
18,510
5,642
Antarctica
Vinson Massif
Ellsworth Mts.
16,066
4,897
Australia1
Kosciusko
Australia
7,310
2,228
How Do you Get to the Top
• It’s easy – you follow the map!
North Face - Messner Variant
When Reinhold Messner made the first solo ascent in
1980, he climbed about halfway up the North Ridge, then
traversed to the right to the Great Couloir
South West Face Central Couloir
From the Western Cwm, the route climbs the huge
Y-shaped couloir, taking the left fork through the
rockband
North Ridge/North East Ridge
This Climbing route is shorter than the South Col route
but above the north Cole the route becomes increasingly
rocky and aggressive with severe winds.
South Col/South East Ridge
This is the most popular way up to the summit
(it is also called the "yak" route) but should
never be underestimated
Did You Know?
• In Nepal Mt Everest is called
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Sagawartha which means land of
eternal snows and in Tibet it is called
Chomolungma.
Mt Everest and some of its neighbours
are so tall that they rise above cloud
level for most of the year.
Mt Everest was named after Sir
George Everest. Everest worked as a
British surveyor.
The Sides of Everest: are: The North
Face, The South West Face, The East
(Kangshung) Face
Sir George Everest
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Dates of Interest
Heights Recorded:
– 1852 First Height Recorded: 29.002ft 8.839m
– 1955 Revised Height: 29.028ft 8.848m
– 1999 Revised Height: 29.035ft 8.850m
– 2005 Revised Height: 29.017ft 2inches 8.844.43m
Interesting Climbs and Climbers
– 1841: Sir George Everest a surveyor records the location of Mount Everest calling it Peak XV
– 1859: Peak XV renamed Mount Everest to honour Sir George Everest
– 1953: On the 29th May Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to stand on
the summit of Mount Everest
– 1975: On the 16th May Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of
Mount Everest
– 1978: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to climb Mount Everest without any
Artificial Oxygen on the 8th May
– 1986: Tenzing Norgay aged 72 passed away on the 9th May
– 1995: Alison Hargreaves was the first British woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest Solo
and without any Artificial Oxygen but later the same year died while descending from the summit of
K2
– 1996: Jamling Norgay son of Tenzing reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 23rd May
– 1998: Tom Whittaker from USA became the first disabled (has an artifical leg) person to reach the
summit of Mount Everest on the 27th May
– 2001: Temba Tsheri Sherpa became the youngest person to stand on the summit of Mount Everest
at the age of 15
– 2004: 21st May saw Pemba Dorje Sherpa make a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from
base camp to summit of Mount Everest
– 2006: Ming Kipa Sherpais the youngest girl at the age of 15 to reach the summit of Everest on the
24th May
– 2008: Sir Edmund Hillary sadly passed away aged 88 on the 11th January
Survival on Mount Everest
• Bad Weather
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If you were climbing on Everest the weather can quickly get very bad
and a blizzard can occur. Sometimes you can’t see and you might take
a wrong turn and walk straight off a cliff. Because of this, when a
blizzard sets in, climbers usually make a cave to wait till the weather
calms down.
• Cold
– When you get cold you’re body slows down and it is hard to think.
Climbers usually wear lots of thick layers to protect themselves from the
cold.
• Altitude
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As you climb higher there is not enough oxygen to breath. To ensure
this doesn’t happen climbers carry oxygen bottles.
• Climbing on snow and ice
– Snow and ice is hard to climb on because it is slippery. Climbers take
crampons which are shoes with metal teeth. They also carry Ice Axes to
help them climb higher.
Survival
of
Mount
Everest
• The large number of trekkers and
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climbers who visit Nepal and the
Everest region contribute to the local
economy but also cause serious
environmental impact.
Although some climbing gear is
recycled by local residents, it is
estimated that more than 50 tons of
plastic, glass, and metal were dumped
between 1953 and the mid-1990s in
what has been called "the world's
highest junkyard."
Efforts have been made to reduce the
negative environmental impact on
Mount Everest. The Nepalese
government has been using a portion
of climbing fees to clean up the area.
In 1976, with aid from Sir Edmund
Hillary's Himalayan Trust and the
Nepalese government, the Sagarmatha
National Park was established to
preserve the remaining soil and forest
around Mount Everest.