Learn interesting things about Mount Everest

The name of the roof of the world is placed according to the geologist George Everest, who has never set foot here and its height is determined by mathematical operations.

Interesting things about Mount Everest

Mount Everest is 8,848 m high, more than 10 times the tallest building in the world Burj Khalifa (829 m). This height was reduced due to earthquakes like Nepal last April.

The peak is set to Everest in 1856, after a geologist George Everest , who has never even set foot on the roof of the world.

Radhanath Sikdar , an Indian mathematician, was the first to determine the height of Mount Everest with operations. The first figure he gave was 8,839 m, then Sikdar adjusted to 8,849 m.

Buddhists hang memorial flags for souls staying on the way to Mount Everest.According to statistics by mid-2011, there were more than 200 bodies left on the way to Mount Everest, and climbers considered them milestones to estimate the distance to the summit.(Photo: CBC)

1974 was the only year when no climbers participated in conquering Everest.

Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb Everest without resorting to oxygen in 1978, with companion Peter Habeler.

In 1990, Edmund Hillary and Peter Hillary were the first parents to conquer this mountain.

Davorin Karnicar is the one who ever skied from the top of the mountain to Camp Base Camp in the southern side of the Himalayas.

A painting of snowstorm on Mount Everest claimed the lives of 15 people during the 1996 climbing season, one of the darkest years of world conquest.

The oldest man ever climbed the top of the mountain was Yuichiro Miura from Japan . He conquered Mount Everest in 2010 when he was 80 years old.

The youngest boy ever participated in the journey to Mount Everest was Jordan Romero, the American . The boy was only 13 when he made his trip in 2010.

Moni Mule Pati and Pem Dorjee Sherpa are a Nepali couple who married Mount Everest in 2004.