The Ascent of Everest

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m. local time on May 29, 1953, by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali, climbing the South Col route. He traveled the Northwest route for three days entirely alone from his base camp at 6,500 metres (21,300ft). Naturalized American and British born Tom Whittaker, whose right foot had been amputated, became the first disabled person to successfully reach the summit. On May 25, 32-year-old Erik Weihenmayer, of Boulder, Colorado, became the first blind person to reach the summit. As Nepal did not allow foreigners to enter the country at the time, the British made several attempts on the north ridge route from the Tibetan side.

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On May 10, a storm stranded several climbers between the summit and the safety of Camp IV, killing Rob Hall, Scott Fischer, Yasuko Namba, Doug Hansen, and guide Andy Harris on the south and the Indian (Ladakhi) climbers Tsewang Paljor, Dorje Morup, Tsewang Smanla on the north. Nonetheless, in 1847, the British continued the survey and began detailed observations of the Himalayan peaks from observation stations up to 240km (150mi) distant.Everest's summit is first known to have been reached by a human in 1953, and interest from climbers increased thereafter. They formed as the result of partial melting of Paleoproterozoic to Ordovician high-grade metasedimentary rocks of the Higher Himalayan Sequence about 20 to 24million years ago during the subduction of the Indian Plate. On May 8–9, another four members, Metodi Savov and Ivan Valchev, on May 8; Nikolay Petkov and Kiril Doskov on May 9, reached the summit via the West Ridge route and descended the South Col route.

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Although they characterized it as the culmination of a team effort by the whole expedition, there was intense public speculation as to which of the pair had set foot on the summit first. There are two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the southeast in Nepal (known as the "standard route") and the other from the north in Tibet. December 27 – Everest veteran Yasuo Kato made the second winter ascent and became the first climber to summit Everest in three different seasons. On May 17 Frits Vrijlandt from Netherlands reached the top at 11:20 hours, becoming the first Dutch to summit via the North side. Clara Sumarwati was the first Indonesian to reach the summit on September 26, 1996, according to the record of Everest Summiteers Association.On May 27, four climbers ( Raymond Lambert, Tenzing Norgay, Rene Aubert, and Leon Flory) started from their tents on the South Col, two teams of Lambert/Tenzing and Aubert/Flory.

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The team fixed a ladder at the Second Step, the major obstacle on the North Ridge route, which continued to be in use until 2008. At the time, both acknowledged it as a team effort by the whole expedition, but Tenzing revealed a few years later that Hillary had put his foot on the summit first. While Japanese climber and skier Yuichiro Miura is known for his 6 May 1970 feat as The Man Who Skied Down Everest, his 1,280 metres (4,199ft) descent on skis began from Everest's 7,906 metres (25,938ft) South Col. Pemba was later arrested and jailed for his alleged involvement in a swindling scandal unrelated to Mt.when measured from its base on the mid-ocean floor, but only attains 4,205m (13,796ft) above sea level. In 1933, Lady Houston, a British millionairess, funded the Houston Everest Flight of 1933, which saw a formation of two aeroplanes led by the Marquess of Clydesdale fly over the Everest summit. The first Chilean and South American climber to set foot on the summit was Cristian Garcia-Huidobro at 10:25 on May 15, who is claimed to have insulted and mocked the rival team's leader, Purto, as he reached the summit on the second place. Abenojar's claim has been registered in Elizabeth Hawley's Himalayan Database but the claim remains dubious.

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The expedition was organized to raise funds for Elisha Foundation, a non-profit that supports people living with disabilities. everestensis, has been found at 5,030 metres (16,500ft), and may feed on insects that have been blown there by the wind. The first British expedition [2]—organized and financed by the newly formed Mount Everest Committee—came under the leadership of Colonel Charles Howard-Bury, with Harold Raeburn as mountaineering leader, and included George Mallory, Guy Bullock, and Edward Oliver Wheeler. May 25 – Paul Keleher, 28, of the United Kingdom takes the London 2012 Olympic Flag to the top of Mount Everest, [207] following the 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. The first person to reach the summit fifteen times (31 May 2005) and the only one to reach it a twentieth time (22 May 2010) is Apa Sherpa, who first summitted on 10 May 1990.Ming Kipa, 15, became the youngest woman to climb Everest (also becoming the youngest person from 2003 to 2010). On the first summit attempt, Lawrence Wager and Percy Wyn-Harris intended to follow the Northeastern ridge, but were unable to regain it, having bypassed (rather than climb over) the First Step, which they reached at 7:00 am.