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Mount Everest Trivia
Learn some interesting trivia about the site for this project: the beautiful, yet dangerous, Mount Everest.
It has been estimated that your odds of dying trying to climb up Mount Everest are 1 in 61.
The descent is more risky, as your estimated chance of dying increases to 1 in 27.
- Elevation: 8,850 m (29,035 ft)
- Age of Mount Everest: > 60 million years
- Fastest measured wind speed at the South Col (7,945 m [26,066.27 ft]): 66.4 m/s (148 mph)
- Lowest measured temperature at the Balcony (8,430 m [27,657.48 ft]): -44.5°C (-48.1°F)
- Year of first-known summit attempt: 1921
- Year of first-known successful summit: 1953
- Age of youngest person to reach the summit: 13
- Age of oldest person to reach the summit: 80
- Number of climbers who have died on Mount Everest: 300+
- Most successful summits performed by one person: 24
- Average expedition length: 39 days
- Fastest known sea level to summit ascent: 14 days
Sources
Arnette, Alan, "Everest Facts for KiDs," accessed December 11, 2019, http://www.alanarnette.com/kids/everestfacts.php.
E. Dixon and S. Pokharel, "Nepal Sherpa breaks own record by climbing Everest 24 times," CNN, accessed June 20, 2019, https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/asia/nepal-everest-record-scli-intl/index.html.
“Mount Everest,” Encyclopædia Brittanica, Inc., accessed February 8, 2019, https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Everest.
Proud, Alex, "Am I the only person who struggles to feel sympathy when someone dies on Everest?", The Telegraph, accessed June 20, 2019, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/thinking-man/am-i-the-only-person-who-struggles-to-feel-sympathy-when-someone/.
Reyes, Kris, "Berkeley woman sets Mount Everest climbing record," ABC7 News, accessed June 20, 2019, https://abc7news.com/society/berkeley-woman-sets-mt-everest-record/5324672/.
Information Resources
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- Twitter: @EVER_WEATHER
- Weather Data
Explore additional information:
- Everest: I journeyed into the ‘death zone’ to install the world’s highest weather station (from The Conversation)
- Local company designed the highest weather station in the world (from Cache Valley Daily.com)
- Mount Everest expedition installs highest weather stations on Earth (from engadget)
- New ‘window into the planet’ installed in Mount Everest’s ‘death zone’ (from New York Post)
- Quest Everest: World's Highest Weather Station (from NOVA Online)
- Scientists Just Installed "a New Window Into The Planet" Near The Top of Everest (from ScienceAlert)
- Scientists Just Installed the World’s Highest Weather Station in Mount Everest's ‘Death Zone’ (from GIZMODO)
- Solar Panels Power World's Highest Weather Station (from CleanTechnica)
- Tracing the Moisture That Nourishes the World's Highest Glacier (from Eos)
- Utah's Own Campbell Scientific Designed A Weather Station For The Top Of The World, Mount Everest (from Utah Public Radio)
- World Record Wind (from Mount Washington Observatory)