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  2. Mount Everest - Wikipedia

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    North Face of Everest as seen from the path to North Base Camp Everest and Lhotse from the south (Nepal): in the foreground are Thamserku, Kangtega, and Ama Dablam. Mount Everest, known locally as Sagarmatha or Qomolangma, [note 4] is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

  3. List of Mount Everest expeditions - Wikipedia

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    The early slowness of expedition frequency reflected the many difficulties of mounting one at that time, which included expense, travel by conventional means from distant Europe, language and culture barriers, the need to hire large numbers of native porters, access to the mountains (including permission of respective governments), extremely limited communications, and, simply, the unknown, as ...

  4. Everest (2015 film) - Wikipedia

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    Everest is a 2015 biographical survival film directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy. It stars an ensemble cast of Jason Clarke , Jake Gyllenhaal , Josh Brolin , John Hawkes , Robin Wright , Michael Kelly , Sam Worthington , Keira Knightley , Martin Henderson and Emily Watson .

  5. Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions - Wikipedia

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    Mount Everest and surrounding terrain (rendered from data by US National Snow and Ice Data Center and Landsat 8) Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,849 metres (29,031.7 ft) above sea level. It is situated in the Himalayan range of Solukhumbu district (Province 1 in present days), Nepal. [1]

  6. List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest - Wikipedia

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    A post-card of Everest from the 1920s, the view from Rongbuk glacier (north side) Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) and thus a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century.

  7. Indian Mountaineering Foundation - Wikipedia

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    In 1959, the organization changed its name to the Sponsoring Committee of Everest Expedition and in the following year it was changed to Sponsoring Committee for Mountaineering Expeditions. On 15 January 1961 it was established as the Indian Mountaineering Foundation with its headquarters in Mumbai , India.

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  9. Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb - Wikipedia

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    The official logo of the Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb. The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb was an expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest during Earth Week 1990 led by Jim Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest (in 1963), envisioned by Warren Thompson, and marked the first time in history that mountaineers from the United States, Soviet Union and China ...