About Everest

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The Tibetan Qomolangma means "Mother of the Earth", and it is called Mount Everest in English. The last altitude measurement was in 2005, which lasted 2 months and was determined by the State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping of China. The altitude was 8844.43 meters. There are also several other heights, all of which differ by a few meters.

●In 1921, the first British mountaineering team, led by Lieutenant Colonel Charles Howard Bury, began to climb Mount Everest, reaching an altitude of 7000 meters.
●In 1922, the second British mountaineering team used an oxygen supply device to reach an altitude of 8320 meters.
●In 1924, when the third British mountaineering team climbed Mount Everest, George Mallory and Andrew Owen disappeared while using an oxygen supply device to reach the summit. Mallory's body was found at an altitude of 8,150 meters in 1999, and the camera he carried was missing. It is impossible to determine whether he and Owen are the world's first people to reach the summit.

★On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary, a 34-year-old member of the British mountaineering team from New Zealand, and the 39-year-old Nepalese guide Tenzin Nogai climbed Mount Everest along the southern slope, the first on record. Top successful mountaineering team.

●In 1956, the Swiss mountaineering team headed by Albert Aigle climbed Mount Everest for the second time in human history. (Since accurate records are available)
●On May 25, 1960, the Chinese climbed Mount Everest for the first time. They were Wang Fuzhou, Gongbu, and Qu Yinhua. This climb was also the first successful climb from the northern slope.
●In 1963, the American expedition led by Norman Dylanfus successfully climbed from the west slope for the first time.
●On May 16, 1975, Japanese Tabe Junko became the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest from the southern slope.
●On May 27, 1975, the Chinese mountaineering team climbed Mount Everest for the second time. Nine members climbed to the top. Among them, Pan Duo, a Tibetan member, became the first woman in the world to successfully climb the northern slope.
●In 1978, the Austrian Peter Hubbel and the Italian Rheinhold Messner succeeded for the first time without an oxygen cylinder.
●In 1980, Polish mountaineer Krzysztof Wirikski successfully climbed Mount Everest for the first time in winter.
●In 1988, the joint mountaineering team of China, Japan, and Nepal successfully crossed Mount Everest from the north and south sides for the first time.
●In 1992, Zhan Yijia became the first Hong Kong citizen to reach the top.
●In 1993, he participated in the cross-strait joint Qomolangma expedition, Wu Jinxiong became the first Taiwanese to reach the summit.
●In 1994, Taiwan mountaineer Shi Fangfang (real name: Shi Fangfang) climbed Mount Everest at 17:38 on May 8, but was missing in a snowstorm on the way down. Shi Fangfang was the second Taiwanese to reach the summit, and the first Taiwanese mountaineer who died in the summit of Mount Everest.
●In 1995, Taiwanese mountaineer Jiang Xiuzhen and Chen Guojun successfully climbed to the summit. Jiang Xiuzhen became the first Taiwanese female mountaineer to reach the summit.

★In 1996, 15 climbers, including the famous mountaineers Rob Hall and Scott Fisher, died during the summit process. This was the third-largest year in the history of climbing Mount Everest. John Krakul, a reporter for the American "Outdoor" magazine, was lucky enough to escape, and wrote his own experience into the book "Into Thin Air". Taiwan mountaineer Gao Minghe escaped from the dead and wrote the book "Nine Deaths". This incident was adapted into the 2015 movie "Mount Everest". There is also a slight mention of the story of the Taiwanese mountaineering group in the film.

●In 1998, American Tom Whitaker became the first disabled person in the world to successfully climb Mount Everest.
●In 2000, Nepal’s famous mountaineer Bab Chiri set off from the base camp to climb from the northern slope. It took 16 hours and 56 minutes to climb to the top and set the record for the fastest ascent.
●In 2001, American Wihenmeier became the first blind person in the world to climb Mount Everest.
●In 2003, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the first successful climb of Mount Everest by mankind.
●In 2005, the 4th China's Mount Everest region comprehensive scientific expedition to measure the height of the mountaineering team successfully climbed Mount Everest and measured the height of Mount Everest.
●In May 2006, 19-year-old British explorers James Hooper and Rob Gauntlett successfully climbed the mountain from the north side and became the youngest climbers of Mount Everest in the UK.
●In 2007, the Ministry of Tourism of Nepal pointed out that the 19-year-old American girl "Samantha Larsen" was the youngest foreign woman to successfully reach the top.
●On May 8, 2008, members of the Beijing Olympic flame, the Mount Everest climbing team, arrived at the summit of Mount Everest, lighted the auspicious cloud torch, and carried the torch for about 200 meters.
●In 2009, Taiwanese Jiang Xiuzhen became the first woman to successfully climb Mount Everest from both the north and the south.
●On May 22, 2009, Taiwanese Li Xiaoshi successfully climbed to the top with a statue of Mazu on his back.
●On May 18, 2010, Taiwanese Lin Yongfu successfully ascended Mount Everest from the north side at the age of 57, and is currently Taiwan’s oldest climber who has successfully climbed Mount Everest.
●On May 22, 2010, the British Lewis Gordon Pugh swam one kilometer in the ice lake on Mount Everest. It took 22 minutes and 51 seconds to become the first person in the Everest long swim.
●On May 22, 2010, Jordan Romero, a 13-year-old boy from California, USA, successfully climbed Mount Everest from the north side, becoming the youngest person in the world to climb Mount Everest.
●On May 19, 2012, a 73-year-old female mountaineer Tamae Watanabe from Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, successfully ascended Mount Everest at 7 am local time, becoming the oldest female climber.
●On May 19, 2012, 4 members of the China University of Geosciences mountaineering team Deqing Ouzhu, Cerendanda, Chen Chen and Dong Fan successfully climbed the summit of Mount Everest from the north slope at 8:16, becoming the first in China The university climbing team that climbed to Mount Everest. Among them, Deqing Ouzhu, Tsering Danda, and Chen Chen are all undergraduates of China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).
●On May 19, 2013, Hong Kong mountain climber Zeng Zhicheng successfully climbed the summit for the second time. From Tibet, he took the northern slope to Mount Everest. This was the first Hong Kong citizen to complete the feat of climbing Mount Everest from the north and south slopes.
●On May 23, 2013, Japanese mountaineer Yuichiro Miura climbed Mount Everest for the third time at the age of 80, becoming the oldest climber. Set a new record for Nepalese mountaineers to reach the top in 2008 at the age of 76.
●On April 18, 2014, an avalanche killed 15 people, which was the second most fatal accident since humans first summited Mount Everest in the 1950s.
●On April 25, 2015, the Nepal earthquake killed 18 people and more than a hundred people were injured or missing. It broke the record of mountain climbing and mountain disaster in 2014. However, the main cause of this accident was the earthquake.

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◆Climbing Mount Everest must abide by the "two o'clock rule", that is, the top attack time must be completed before two in the afternoon, or you must turn back.

◆As of 2012, about 235 people were killed on the way to Mount Everest. Most of the people who lost their lives died at altitudes above 8,000 meters, and avalanches and accidental falls were the two biggest causes.

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  • Title Card: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to summit Everest. Over the next 40 years, only top professional climbers attempted the same feat. One in four died.

    Title Card: 1992: New Zealander Rob Hall pioneered the concept of commercial guiding on Everest for amateur climbers. Over the next four years his team, Adventure Consultants, successfully led 19 clients to summit without a single fatality.

    Title Card: 1996: Other commercial operators follow Rob Hall's lead, including Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness. More than 20 expeditions compete to summit Everest in the same two week window.

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    Rob Hall: Can you just listen up? Guys? We got 2,000 feet, 600 vertical meters to Camp Four. It's roped all the way, so I know you can make it. Now, once we get to the yellow band we're gonna regroup, put on the masks, turn on the gas. Make sense?