X! Marks The Spot Travel Quiz presents Interesting facts about Mt.Everest.

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2. 1. In which country is the
Mount Everest?
• India
• Tibet
• Nepal
• China
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3. Answer:
• The international border
between Tibet Autonomous
Region, China and Nepal runs
across the precise summit
point.
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4. 2. What is the height of the
Mount Everest?
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5. Answer
• Everest is 29,035 feet or 8848
meters high
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6. Everest Facts: Geography
• Everest is 29,035 feet
or 8848 meters high
• The summit is the
border of Nepal to the
south and China or
Tibet on the north
• It is over 60 million
years old
• Everest grows by about
a quarter of an inch
(0.25") every year
• It consist of different
types of shale,
limestone and marble
• The rocky summit is
covered with deep
snow all year long
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7. Everest Facts: Weather
• The Jet Stream sits on top of
Everest almost all year long
• The wind can blow over 200 mph
• The temperature can be -80F
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8. 3. Who is Mount Everest named
after? What was it called earlier?
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9. Answer:
• It was named Mount Everest, after
Sir George Everest.
• He was Welsh surveyor, geographer
and Surveyor-General of India from
1830 to 1843.
• In 1865, Mount Everest was named
in his honour despite his objections
by the Royal Geographical Society.
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• He owned a house in Mussoorie,
Uttarakhand, India for some years.
• Although almost derelict, it still has a
roof and there are plans to make it into
a museum at some time.
Everest was first named Peak 15
and measured at 29,002 feet in
1856.
Although Tibetans had called
Everest "Chomolungma" for
centuries, Waugh was unaware of
this because Nepal and Tibet were
closed to foreigners.

10. 4.Who were the first to summit
the Mount Everest?
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11. Everest Facts: Summits
• The first attempt was in 1921 by a British expedition from the north (Tibet) side
• The first summit was on May 29, 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand
and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal. They climbed from the south side.
• The first climber to summit Everest without bottled oxygen was Italian Reinhold
Messner in 1980
• The first woman to summit Everest was Junko Tabei of Japan in 1975
• The oldest person to summit was Nepalese Min Bahadur Sherchan, age 76 on
May 26, 2008
• The oldest woman to summit was JapaneseTamae Watanabe, age 73, in 2012
from the north
• The youngest person to summit was American Jordan Romero, age 13, on May 23,
2010 from the north side
• Apa Sherpa holds the record for most summits with 21, the most recent one in
2011
• First man from Hyderabad: Sekhar.
• About 3,425 climbers have summited Everest once and another 2,220 have
summited multiple times totaling 5,652 summits of Everest as of June 2011
• 223 people have died trying to climb Everest. Almost all are still on the mountain.
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12. 6.Approximately how many days
does it take to climb the Everest?
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13. Everest Facts:
Climbing
• It takes 2 months to
climb Mt. Everest in
order for the body to
adjust to the high
altitude
• There are 18 different
climbing routes on
Everest
• There is 66% less
oxygen in each breath
on the summit of
Everest than at sea
level
• Most climbers eat a lot
of rice and noodles for
food
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14. 7. Name the people who assist
the mountaineers with the
climbing, camping and cooking?
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15. Everest Facts: Sherpas
• Sherpa is the name of a people. They mostly live in western Nepal.
They migrated from Tibet over the last several hundred years
• Sherpa is also used as a last name
• Usually their first name is the day of the week they were
born.
• Nyima – Sunday; Dawa – Monday; Mingma – Tuesday; Lhakpa – Wednesday; Phurba – Thursday; Pasang
– Friday; Pemba - Saturday
• Sherpas help climbers by carrying tents and cooking food to the high
camps
• Sherpas climb Everest as a job to support their families
• Sherpas can get sick from the altitude like anyone
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16. 8. What is the cost charged by
the tour operators to summit
Mt.Everest?
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17. Everest Facts: Trivia
• Its costs nearly $ 70,000
per person to climb it.
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18. 9.Approximately how many
calories does one burn in a
Mt.Everest climbing expedition?
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19. Everest Facts: Trivia
• Climbers burn over
10,000 calories each
day, double that on the
summit climb
• Climbers will lose 10 to
20 lbs during the
expedition
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20. 10. What is the minimum age
to climb the Mt. Everest?
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21. Everest Facts: Trivia
• You have to be at least 16
to climb Everest from the
south side and 18 from the
north
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22. • “Because it's there", which has been
called "the most famous three words
in mountaineering". Who said it?
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The most famous mountaineering quote

23. Answer
• It is attributed to John Mallory, a
mountaineer who took part in
the first three British expeditions
to Mount Everest in the early
1920s.
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