Description: The brave people who climbed the Everest and thier laurels
Conquest of Everest
Features of Mount Everest
- Located in Nepal and Tibet
- 29000 feet high
- Tallest mountain in the world
- Called as Chomolungma by Tibetians
- Named as Everest by English surveyors in 1850s
Climbing the Everest
- Important facts
Difficulties in climbing
- Need good stamina and climbing skills
- Oxygen is thin at higher altitude and must carry o2 cylinders
- Have to face blizzards
- Temperatures are 70 degrees below zero
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary
- Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary climbed the Everest in May 29, 1953
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