--- title: "35 Interesting Facts About Mount Everest" url: https://www.kickassfacts.com/35-interesting-mount-everest-facts/ date: 2017-04-10 modified: 2022-11-02 lang: en author: "jazz" description: "Here are 35 interesting Mount Everest facts. 1-5 Mount Everest Facts 1. Sir George Everest, the man after whom Mount Everest is named, actually pronounced his name \"Eve-rest\" and not..." categories: - "Fact List" - "Nature" image: https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/mount-everest.jpg word_count: 1210 --- # 35 Interesting Facts About Mount Everest Here are 35 interesting Mount Everest facts. ## 1-5 Mount Everest Facts [![Image credit: en.wikipedia.org](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/GeorgeEverest.jpeg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/GeorgeEverest.jpeg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 1. Sir George Everest, the man after whom Mount Everest is named, actually pronounced his name "Eve-rest" and not "Ever-est". - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Everest) 2. For the first time since 1974, nobody climbed to the top of Mount Everest in 2015. - [Source](http://mentalfloss.com/uk/nature/37508/nobody-reached-the-top-of-mount-everest-in-2015) 3. The rock at the summit of Mount Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago. - [Source](http://www.tulane.edu/~sanelson/eens1110/deform.htm) 4. The original surveyors of Mount Everest lied and added 2 feet to its height to make it 29,002 feet because they didn't think people would believe them if they said it was really 29,000 feet high. - [Source](https://www.thoughtco.com/mount-everest-highest-mountain-in-world-755908) 5. In 2011, two Nepali men climbed Mount Everest and then proceeded to paraglide off of the summit, landing 35 km away. They then hiked and kayaked to the Bay of Bengal, winning the pair National Geographic Adventurers of the Year. - [Source](http://www.xcmag.com/2013/05/60-years-of-everest-paragliding-and-hang-gliding-on-the-worlds-highest-peak/) ## 6-10 Mount Everest Facts [![Image credit: en.wikipedia.org](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Goran.png)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Goran.png)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 6. A man rode his bike from Sweden to Mount Everest and then tried to summit. He turned around 300 feet from the top. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6ran_Kropp) 7. There's 3G mobile phone coverage on the summit of Mount Everest, so you could tweet from the top. - [Source](http://www.geek.com/mobile/mount-everest-now-has-a-permanent-3g-connection-to-the-summit-1292277/) 8. A Nepalese Sherpa climbed to the summit of Mount Everest from base camp in just over 8 hrs. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pem_Dorjee_Sherpa#Records) 9. It costs between 35,000-80,000 US dollars to climb Mount Everest. The permit alone costs 11,000 dollars. - [Source](http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2015/12/21/everest-2016-how-much-does-cost-to-climb-mount-everest/) 10. Mount Everest may be the tallest mountain in the world, but Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is the furthest away from the center of the [earth](https://www.kickassfacts.com/30-kickass-interesting-facts-earth/). - [Source](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Chimborazo) ## 11-15 Mount Everest Facts [![Image credit: en.m.wikipedia.org](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mount-Everest_pic.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Mount-Everest_pic.jpg)Image credit: en.m.wikipedia.org 11. You can pay $80,000 to be guided to the top of Mount Everest, even if you have no climbing experience at all. - [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest) 12. Reinhold Messner climbed Mount Everest, without [oxygen](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-kickass-interesting-facts-about-oxygen/). Climbed Nanga Parbat 3 times, the first time he lost his brother and 7 toes in the process. Then climbed it again to become the first person to solo climb it. And climbed it again to retrieve his brother remains. - [Source](http://www.badassoftheweek.com/index.cgi?id=798911528075) 13. Mount Everest is growing by around 2.5 inches per year. - [Source](https://www.reference.com/geography/much-mount-everest-grow-year-7b7b7f80e1d8eb38) 14. A 20-year old kid successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and snowboarded his way down to the base camp. He only had 4 years of snowboarding experience prior to the stunt. Learn [who invented snowboarding](https://www.cheapsnowgear.com/blogs/snow-news/who-invented-snowboard-the-big-debate). 15. In 2005 a man landed a helicopter on the summit of Mount Everest. Two days later he did it again, proving he didn't just get lucky the first time. - [Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyBapqTtLWA) ## 16-20 Mount Everest Facts [![Image credit: en.wikipedia.org](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Scott_parazynski.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Scott_parazynski.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 16. Scott E. Parazynski is the only person to have flown in [space](https://www.kickassfacts.com/25-interesting-facts-about-space-part-2/) and summited Mount Everest. Parazynski flew five times on the Space Shuttle and conducted seven spacewalks. In 2008, he failed to summit Everest due to a severe back injury but succeeded on his second try the next year. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_E._Parazynski) 17. The first expedition to successfully climb Mount Everest, attributed to Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, comprised an additional 13 mountaineers, 1 journalist, 20 Sherpa guides and 362 local porters. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_expedition) 18. Mount Everest is the only place in the world where the land ever touches the stratosphere. - [Source](http://www.nature.com/news/2008/081028/full/news.2008.1191.html) 19. Babu Chiri Sherpa summited Mount Everest 10 times by age 30 and once stayed on the summit for 21 hours, yet on his last ascent while taking pictures he fell into a crevasse and died. - [Source](https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/may/03/guardianobituaries1) 20. A small jumping spider named Euophrys omnisuperstes (which means 'standing above everything else') lives at elevations of up to 6,700 meters on Mount Everest, making it the highest known permanent resident on earth. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euophrys_omnisuperstes) ## 21-25 Mount Everest Facts [![Image credit: en.wikipedia.org](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Brian_Blessed.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Brian_Blessed.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 21. Brian Blessed (Prive Vultan in Flash Gordon) has attempted to climb Mount Everest three times. He is also the oldest man to trek to the North Magnetic Pole on foot and has undertaken an expedition into the jungles of Venezuela, during which he survived a plane crash. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Blessed) 22. Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest at age 70 (as well as being the first to ski the mountain). When his record was broken, he recaptured it in 2008 at the age of 75. In 2013 Miura again beat the record by summiting Everest at the age of 80. - [Source](http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2014/02/08/people/yuichiro-miura-on-top-of-the-world/#.VfvG-J8_7qB) 23. The first snowboarder to snowboard down mount Everest went missing on his second descent, when his team arrived back at base camp they realized he had failed, however later that day he was reported being sighted still snowboarding around camp 1, but upon arrival of his team no trace was found. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Siffredi) 24. Enola's tattoo in Waterworld has a Chinese script that actually has the longitude and latitude coordinates to Mount Everest. - [Source](http://hanzismatter.blogspot.in/2008/10/enola-tattoo-in-waterworld.html) 25. In 2012 a Woman ran out of oxygen climbing Mount Everest. She had zero climbing experience and paid $40,000 to a firm that had never attempted Everest before. - [Source](http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/exclusive-canadian-everest-victim-used-inexperienced-company-lacked-oxygen-1.1195149) ## 26-30 Mount Everest Facts [![Image credit: en.m.wikipedia.org](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Green_Boots.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Green_Boots.jpg)Image credit: en.m.wikipedia.org 26. There is an unidentified body on Mount Everest named "Green Boots" who has been lying on the mountain for years because no one is able to retrieve the body. - [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Boots) 27. Novice climbers are not allowed to climb Mount Everest; those who have not previously reached the peak of at least one 6,500-meter mountain are banned from attempting to summit Mount Everest. - [Source](http://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/29/travel/nepal-everest-limits-feat/) 28. For Mount Everest to form a black hole, it would need to be shrunk to smaller than a nanometer but keeping the same mass. - [Source](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzschild_radius#Formula_for_the_Schwarzschild_radius) 29. Mount Everest is only the 23rd tallest mountain in the solar system. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_tallest_mountains_in_the_Solar_System#List) 30. If Mount Everest were to be placed in the deepest known ocean location Challenger Deep, it would still be covered by over a mile of water. - [Source](http://geology.com/records/deepest-part-of-the-ocean.shtml) ## 31-35 Mount Everest Facts [![Image credit: en.wikipedia.org](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lukla_Airport.jpg)](https://www.kickassfacts.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Lukla_Airport.jpg)Image credit: en.wikipedia.org 31. The airport most use to get to Mount Everest in Nepal is also a most dangerous airport in the world with 1500 foot runway at over 9000-foot elevation. - [Source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenzing%E2%80%93Hillary_Airport) 32. Crinoid fossils, a prehistoric form of marine animal life, have been found on the peak of Mount Everest, thusly demonstrating that over millions of years, as a result of the tectonic movement, the seabed has ultimately been forced up to the highest peaks on earth. - [Source](http://mathisencorollary.blogspot.in/2012/03/crinoids-on-mount-everest.html) 33. The World's highest webcam is on the Kala Patthar mountain at a height of 18,514 feet and provides one of the best vantage points of Mount Everest in the world. - [Source](http://gizmodo.com/5845688/the-worlds-highest-webcam-is-shooting-mt-everest-as-we-speak) 34. The Sky Looks Black from Mount Everest. - [Source](http://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/60226/why-does-the-sky-look-black-in-pictures-taken-from-the-summit-of-everest?rq=1) 35. There is a scientific measurement of the 'risk of death' of any action: the micromort. If an activity is rated as one micromort, you would have a one in a million chance of dying while doing it. Running a marathon is ~7 micromorts, skydiving 10, and climbing Mount Everest 40,000! - [Source](http://www.smh.com.au/comment/whats-most-likely-to-kill-you-the-more-micromorts-the-more-chance-of-dying-20170221-guic3l.html)