Mount Everest

Mount Everest is a wonder to behold and the highest peak in the world, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. Everest is part of the Mahalangur range within the greater Himalaya mountain range in Asia, located on the border between Nepal and Tibet.

Mt. Everest, part of the Himalayas, located between Nepal & Tibet (China)

Because the summit is directly between Tibet and Nepal, Mount Everest can be climbed either from the Tibetan side (the north ridge) or from the Nepalese side (the southeast ridge). Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest, the Surveyor General of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India. Everest is known in Nepali as Sagarmatha and in Tibetan as Chomolungma.

Thousands of trekkers each year book Mount Everest tour packages from the south of Mount Everest in Nepal. No mountaineering experience or technical equipment is necessary for the challenging trek to Everest base camp (approx. 5,364 m)

View from Mount Everest base camp, Nepal

The south side, also known as “the standard route” is located in Nepal’s Sagarmatha National Park. The park, as well as Mt. Everest, also has several other peaks all above 6,000 m, was established as a World Heritage Site in 1979.

Today, hundreds of climbers from around the world use this route to try to stand on top of the world. It is considered slightly more dangerous than the North Ridge Route due primarily to the instability of the Khumbu Icefall.

You can explore Mt. Everest’s Tibet side on a holiday to China. The China side is the north side of Mount Everest where the base camp is at a slightly lower altitude of 5,200 m (17,060 ft).

A permit is required to visit the North Base Camp from the Chinese government, as well as the permit needed to actually visit Tibet itself. We are able to acquire these permits and do package tours that include a vehicle, driver and guide. There is vehicle access to the North Camp in the summer months.

From the Base Camp, tourists are required to take buses managed by the government in order to limit the traffic in the final stretch of the road, up to a hill which is marked at 5,200 m. You can also trek up from the tourist camp, but only having spent numerous days acclimatising.

Mt. Everest, Tibet

According to the summit statistics in the Himalayan database (HDB), that cover all expeditions from 1905, six to eight people lose their lives each year summiting Mount Everest – more on the south side in Nepal due to more people climbing that side. However, Everest summits are growing and death rates are reducing, the reduction in deaths is primarily due to better gear, weather forecasting and more people climbing with commercial operations.

The death zone above camp 4, 8000 m at the edge of the atmosphere, has taken many strong and experienced climber’s lives. The reason it’ has this name is that nothing lives at that altitude or above and no human can survive long there due to the lack of oxygen in the thin air. Climbers are very vulnerable to altitude sickness once they climb into the death zone.

Mt. Everest Death Zone

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