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The closest sea to Mount Everest's summit is the Bay of Bengal, almost 700 km (430 mi) away. To approximate a climb of the entire height of Mount Everest, one would need to start from this coastline, a feat accomplished by Tim Macartney-Snape's team in 1990. Climbers usually begin their ascent from base camps above 5,000 m (16,404 ft).
Everest is a legendary mountain that everybody wants to discover, and further, to conquer. EVN 2008 is the event to bring Vietnamese to conquer "the roof of the world" as well as a chance for Vietnam to tell the world that Vietnamese people are ready to subjugate high mounts, bring Vietnam Spirit to the global sea.
Vietnam: 2008-05-22: Bùi Văn Ngợi, Phan Thanh Nhiên , Nguyễn Mậu Linh [333] [334] [335] ... Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions; References
Anna Czerwińska from Poland became the oldest woman to Summit Mount Everest (at the time) at the age of 50 (born on 7 July 1949, climbed Everest from the Nepal side on 22 May 2000). On May 22, at 9:30 in the morning, Manuel González from Málaga and Iván Jara from Sevilla, became the first mountaineer from Andalucia to reach the summit.
Many Mount Everest records are held by Nepali, especially those from the Sherpa region. On 11 May 2011, Apa Sherpa successfully reached the summit of Everest for the twenty-first time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents. [138] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [139] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)
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Scott was considered one of the world's leading high-altitude and big-wall climbers [11] [12] and was the recipient of numerous awards for his achievements. [13] He was the first English person to reach the summit of Mount Everest and, on the descent, he survived an unplanned bivouac with Dougal Haston 100 metres below the summit, without oxygen, sleeping bags and, as it turned out, without ...
The Kangshung Face (Chinese: 康雄壁) or East Face [1] is the eastern-facing side of Mount Everest, one of the Tibetan sides of the mountain. It is 3,350 metres (11,000 ft) from its base on the Kangshung Glacier to the summit. [ 2 ]