June 7, 2009

• Nepal opened its borders to the world in 1949.
• Mallory described Mount Everest from Rongbuk as, ‘a great white fang excrescent on the jawbone of the earth’.
• Why do men climb Everest ? Mallory said, “Because it is there.”
• Sir Edmund Hillary led an expedition to find the Yeti in 1958.
• According to Dr. George Schaller, the existence of Yeti unknown to science cannot be ruled out at high altitude.
• Reinhold Messner climbed Everest alone.
• Tenzing buried his daughter’s red and blue pencils on the top of Everest.
• Approximately 150 people have died in different expeditions of Mount Everest so far.
• Tenzing was known as ‘Himalayan Club Sherpa No 48′.