Friday 12 December 2008

Thoughts on climbing


Climbers need to obtain an expensive permit, costing up to US$25,000 per person.[4] Everest has claimed 210 lives, including eight who perished during a 1996 storm high on the mountain. Conditions are so difficult in the death zone that most corpses have been left where they fell, some of which are visible from standard climbing routes.[5]Edmond Hilary and Sherpa Tensing managed after great effort to conquer the worlds highest mountain at 29,028, the mighty Everest or Chuomo-Lungma,as the Tibetans call it(mother goddess of the world).Sir John Hunt leader of the expedition, established eight camps and Edmond Hilary later Sir with the trusty Sherpa reached the Summit on May 29th 1953 after nine failed attepts by other climbers most famously the illfated Mallory- Watson expedition of 1924. The Union Jack the Tibetan Flag and the Flag of the United Nations, were placed on the Summit. The news of this great achievement was held back to coincide with the Coronation so people had two important milestones to celebrate.

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