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Mount Everest one of the deadliest mountains
I recently did a little research
and discovered some fascinating
facts you might not know about
Mount Everest.
Nobody really knew much
about Everest until the
19th century. It was 1802 when
the British commissioned a
team of surveyors to venture to
the mountain to take measure
ments.
The surveyors took surpris
ingly almost accurate measure
ments, all the while enduring
the excruciating conditions,
without the proper gear for the
most part. They were able to
prove that the Himalaya’s, not
the Andes, were the world’s
highest mountain range.
Everest is 29,031.69 feet
above sea level, making it the
highest mountain on Earth.
The first climbers included
George Mallory and his climb
ing partner Andrew Irving.
They were last seen on June 8,
1924, departing the 26,800-foot
ADLEN ROBINSON
Columnist
Camp VI.
They were said to be wearing
tweed coats — not exactly hik
ing apparel. The two were
never seen alive again.
Mallory’s corpse was not dis
covered until 1999. Irvine’s
body was never found.
Speaking of corpses, did you
know more than 300 people
have died attempting to climb
Mount Everest. The “death
zone” is considered anything
above 26,000 feet.
Some of the contributing fac
tors that can cause death
include rockslides, blizzards,
falls, altitude sickness, ava
lanches, freezing temperatures
and exhaustion. I was shocked
to learn that when climbers die
on the mountain, their bodies
are just left along the trail.
The first pair to stand at the
summit of the mountain were
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
Norgay in 1953.
Their celebrity status among
climbers is legendary and
remains so. They only spent 15
minutes at the top of the moun
tain.
Hillary later wrote while they
were on the mountain, he
thought about Mallory and
Irvine and looked around for
any sign that they had made it,
later saying he did not see a
sign.
How funny that both men
thought that since they had
climbed Everest, nobody else
would attempt the climb.
Edmund was later quoted as
saying, “We couldn’t have been
more wrong.”
Everest’s deadliest day was
on April 25, 2015, when 19
people were killed in an ava
lanche triggered by a 7.8 earth
quake that hit Nepal. The earth
quake killed more than 9,000
people in Nepal and injured
more than 23,000.
Have you ever read the book,
“Into Thin Air,” by Jon
Krakauer?
Krakauer writes about the
1996 disaster when a storm hit
a climbing group on Everest
and eight members of the team
were killed.
All of these deaths have not
quelled people’s desires to
climb the mighty mountain.
There are numerous companies
that are more than happy to col
lect tens of thousands of dollars
from eager climbers and supply
them with guides for their
climb.
I looked up some of the pop
ular companies that provide
guides for climbers and some
of the pricing was unbelievable.
One price was $84,500 to climb
a certain route to the summit.
What about all of the litter all
of those climbers must discard?
Years ago, Everest was quite a
cesspool of garbage.
Thankfully Nepal’s govern
ment now requires climbers to
bring out all of the equipment
they went in with — or risk los
ing a substantial cash deposit.
It is amazing to me that so
many people want to accom
plish the feat of climbing
Mount Everest.
I guess my sense of adven
ture is just different — an after
noon in the kitchen making
homemade ramen or a Baked
Alaska is about as daring as I
get.
Adlen Robinson is an award win
ning columnist and author of
"Organic Food and Kitchen
Matters." Email her at adlen@
adlenshomematters.com.
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