October 7 – Ramón Blanco of Spain/ Venezuela became the oldest person to reach the summit aged 60 years, 160 days. Additionally, the Nepalese government imposed a limit on the number of climbers who could be on Everest at any one time, to prevent 'traffic jams' of climbers on the mountain. m. It was the last time the two were seen alive; whether either of them reached the summit remains a question that has reverberated through the decades. If the First, they had no chance of having reached the top; if the Second, they would have had about three hours of oxygen each and the summit was at least three hours away.

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October 16, 1978, Wanda Rutkiewicz became the third woman, the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.May 25 – Malavath Purna became the youngest girl to summit Mount Everest, at 13 years and 11 months old. May 13 – Japanese Ken Noguchi's summitted, making him the youngest to reach the highest peaks on all seven continents at 25 years 265 days old. Other documented local names include "Deodungha" ("Holy Mountain"), but it is unclear whether it is commonly used. British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition - On September 24, a British expedition led by Chris Bonington achieved the first ascent of the Southwest Face. By the same measure of base to summit, Denali, in Alaska, formerly known as Mount McKinley, is taller than Everest as well.

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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. These leucogranites are part of a belt of Late Oligocene– Miocene intrusive rocks known as the Higher Himalayan leucogranite.

According to the study based on satellite data from 1993 to 2018, vegetation is expanding in the Everest region. Constantine Niarchos, billionaire's Stavros Niarchos son, became the first Greek to summit Mount Everest. During the season, there were several outbreaks of COVID-19 among climbers, compounded by the Nepalese Department of Tourism neglecting to establish any rules or regulations to mitigate the risk of outbreaks at the South Base Camp. 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. They spent the next month attempting to reach the Western Cwm through the Khumbu Icefall but were stopped just short of success when an insurmountable crevasse (100–300ft wide) blocked further progress near the top of the icefall.

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Several Western climbing journals reported that the Soviet Union had launched an attempt from Tibet in October with the aim of reaching the summit before the following year's British expedition. Although dumped into a crevasse below the North Col, his body has been rediscovered a number of times, including in 1960 by the Chinese expedition.The modern pronunciation of Everest ( / ˈ ɛ v ər ɪ s t/) [20] is different from Sir George's pronunciation of his surname ( / ˈ iː v r ɪ s t/ EEV-rist). On June 4, Norton and Somervell attempted an oxygenless summit in perfect weather; throat trouble forced Somervell to abandon the climb at about 28,000 feet (8534m) while Norton continued on alone, reaching a height of 8,573m (28,126ft), just 275m (900ft) short of the summit. With Mallory leading (and thus becoming the first European to set foot on Everest's flanks) they climbed the North Col to an altitude of 7,005 metres (22,982ft). On October 8, 1976, as part of the American Bicentennial Everest Expedition, Bob Cormack and Chris Chandler reached the summit via the South Col Route.

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when measured from its base on the mid-ocean floor, but only attains 4,205m (13,796ft) above sea level. It consists of greyish to dark grey or white, parallel laminated and bedded, Ordovician limestone interlayered with subordinate beds of recrystallised dolomite with argillaceous laminae and siltstone. The first pair, Tom Bourdillon and Charles Evans, came within 100m (330ft) of the summit on 26 May 1953, but turned back after running into oxygen problems. During the collision of India with Asia, these rocks were thrust downward and to the north as they were overridden by other strata; heated, metamorphosed, and partially melted at depths of over 15 to 20 kilometres (9.In 1856, Andrew Waugh announced Everest (then known as Peak XV) as 8,840m (29,002ft) high, after several years of calculations based on observations made by the Great Trigonometrical Survey.