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First surveyed in 1852
during the Great Trigonometric Survey of India
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First known as Peak XV -
later named Everest
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First scaled in May 1953 -
by Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary
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More than 1500 people have
climbed the mountain - almost 800 in the last 5 years
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More than one-third of the
summiteers are Sherpas
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71 women have climbed the
Everest
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First woman to scale the
peak was Japanese - in May 1975
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First south Asian woman to
reach the top was Bachendri Pal from India - in May 1984
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First south Asian woman to
scale Everest twice - Santosh Yadav from India - in May 1992 and May
1993
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15 year old Nepalese student
Temba Tsheri is the youngest to reach Everest - in 2001
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'Everest View Hotel' at
12,779' is the world's only hotel at this altitude.
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Sherpa Ang Rita has climbed the Everest
10 times without oxygen and he is also the only person in the world to
have climbed the Everest without oxygen in winter.
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Sherpa Appa holds the record of 12
Everest ascents.
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Sherpa Babu Chhiri - the Nepalese mountaineer and 10
times Everest summiteer set two Everest records - one for scaling Mount
Everest in the fastest recorded time (17 hours), and the other for spending
21 hours at the summit – the longest stay atop the peak without oxygen.
Babu died in April 2001 when he fell into a snow crevasse.
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Only three women have
climbed the Everest from both sides. Two are from Nepal - Lakpa
and Pemba Doma
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Erik Weihenmayer is the first visually
challenged mountain climber to
reach the summit of Everest
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A 63 year old Japanese woman is the
oldest woman to reach the top - May 2002
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According to
Ken Noguchi, there are at least 100 tonnes
of
litter on the higher slopes of Everest, making it the "world's
highest
garbage site".