this is a fact file about mountains for my friends !!!!!!


EVEREST


*Age of Everest:
Everest was formed about 50 million years ago


*Elevation:
29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999


*Name in Nepal:
Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky)


*In Tibet:
Chomolungma: (means: mother goddess of the universe)


*Named after:
Sir George Everest in 1865, the British surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15


*Location:
Latitude 27° 59' N.....Longitude 86° 56' E. It's summit ridge separates Nepal and Tibet


*First Ascent:
May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route


*First Solo Ascent:
Aug. 20,1980, Reinhold Messner, IT, via the NE Ridge to North Face


*First winter Ascent:
Feb. 17,1980 -L.Cichy and K. Wielicki, POL


*Mt. Everest rises a few millimeters each year due to geological forces


*First Ascent by a Woman:
May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col



*First Oxygen less Ascent:
May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge.



*First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both north & south sides:
Cathy O'Dowd (S.A.) South May 25,1996/North '99


*Fastest Ascent from South:
Pemba Dorjee Sherpa, Nepal-8 hours and 10 minutes May 21st 2004



*Fastest Ascent (north side):
Hans Kammerlander (IT) May, 24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp



*Youngest person:
Ming Kipa Sherpa (Nepal)-15 years old-in May, 2003