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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 ...
The Everest Base Camp trek on the south side, at an elevation of 5,364 m (17,598 ft), is one of the most popular trekking routes in the Himalayas and about 40,000 people per year make the trek there from Lukla Airport (2,846 m or 9,337 ft). [5]
1938 British Mount Everest expedition; 1951 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition; 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition; 1953 British Mount Everest expedition; 1960 Chinese Mount Everest expedition; 1963 American Mount Everest expedition; 1965 Indian Everest Expedition; 1970 Mount Everest disaster; 1974 French Mount Everest expedition ...
This is a list of notable Mount Everest guides, which are professional mountaineers (and mountaineering firms) who help people to ascend Mount Everest in the Himalayas in return for fees. Previously, the summit was only accessible to expert mountaineers who were often self-guided, or assisted by local sherpas .
Asian Trekking has supported expeditions on the North and South sides of Mount Everest, and also to Lhotse. [15] [16] Asian Trekking has also supported International Dream Everest and Eco Everest Expedition trips to Mount Everest. [17] In the aftermath of the 2015 Mount Everest avalanche, Asian Trekking and Himex helped injured people at their ...
The members of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, in a colorized photograph. Back row, left to right: Andrew Irvine, George Mallory, John de Vars Hazard, Noel E. Odell and expedition ...
National Geographic said Himex was the "largest and most sophisticated guiding operation on Everest" in a 2013 article. [2] Himex's team is known for fixing lines on Mount Everest, although in 2012 other teams did this work. [3] Three of the expeditions of this company were filmed in the television show Everest: Beyond the Limit between 2006 ...
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