The Summit
The average length of time it takes to climb Mt. Everest is?
6-9 weeks
What are Crampons?
Shoes with spikes on the bottom to help climbers climb.
Mount Everest is this height....
8849m
No couple has gotten married on Mount Everest before
False
What type of landform is Everest?
A Mountain
You must make summit by what time during the day and why?
2:00pm
What is the Death Zone?
This area above 8000m where there is limited oxygen in the air.
What is a Sherpa?
Guides hired to lead expeditions up Mount Everest.
How many times has Mount Everest been summitted?
12,884 times by 7,269 different people
Mount Everest grows by this much every year?
Approx 2mm
What was the name of the (at least 1) first people to summit Mount Everest?
New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay
What is a Crevase?
A deep, narrow opining or crack in a glacier or the earth.
Mount Everest is part of what mountain range?
Himalayas
What is the age of the youngest person to actually climb Mt. Everest?
13
Mount Everest is this old...
Approximately 60 million years old
These symptoms are common factors what? (headache, loss of appetite, dizziness, nausea, cough)
Altitude sickness
What is Avalanche?
A large mass of snow, ice, earth or rock moving swiftly down a mountainside.
What is Mount Everest?
This is the highest point on earth above sea level.
This is the age of the oldest person to climb Mt. Everest.
What is 80?
What date was it when the first people summitted Mount Everest?
May 29 1953
Climbers handle the death zone by doing these things.
wearing oxygen masks/tanks to breathe.
What is Altitude?
The height above sea level.
Mount Everest is located between what two countries?
China and Nepal
Yuichiro Miura is the oldest person to climb Mount Everest. How old was he when he summited Mount Everest?
80 Yrs old
This was the fasted record from base camp to summit.
10 hours 56 minutes