Mount Everest

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November 6th, 2009 by Travel

Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the planet Earth and reaches an elevation of 8,848 meters in height, located in Nepal and Tibet within Communist China. Many people have attempted to climb the mountain, and there have been 3,050 successful climbs, however there have also been many tragedies that go along with such a dangerous endeavor, two hundred and three people have perished on the mountain, many of the bodies left out in the open, frozen. The mountain is named after a Colonel George Everest and was done so in 1865 by Andrew Waugh.

Mount Everest

Today the mountain has had many controversies relating to how climbers treat each other (with some being uncaring toward others who are in distress, subsequently letting them die) and pollution from oxygen canisters polluting the mountain as litter, along with the leaving of corpses without removal. There is a twenty five thousand dollar fee for climbing the mountain, and some have done it without the aid of oxygen canisters; however the majority do need them.

Mount Everest