Mount Everest Facts and Information All on a single page, no more going from page to page. Now, Bookmark, Print then Bag. Why? just read on... Here comes, the highest mountain on earth, *The* Mt. Everest which we call it Himalayan Spirit which lives and breathes all along in Nepal. Climb it if you can, and your life will never be the same again! Everest Base Camp, 5200 meters, the place most trekkers begin their ascent of the world's highest peak.

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World's First climbers to Everest Tenzing and Hillary

"We will stamp on the top
with the wind in our teeth..." -- George Mallory

"Once in their lifetime, every person should journey to a place where legends live, where everything is bigger than life. Everest has always represented nature at its most powerful, most awe-inspiring, most unconquerable." --- An American Mountain Climber

A brief Fact Sheet of Mount Everest

Description of Everest Camps

An Honorary Nepali Citizen cnn news >>

Personal Homepages of Everest Climbers

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• Edmund Hillary - "I was the first to Conquer Everest", a site fully dedicated to him.
• Jim Whittaker - the first American to climb Mt Everest
• Merab Khabazi - the first Georgian everest submitters
• Francois Langlois - preparing for the everest, tips and author's climbing experience
• Jaime Vinals - the first central american to climb the summit. Site in Spanish only.
• Irish Everest Team 2003 - a team of Irish share their Mt Everst climbing stories, More like this >>
• Auburn man - Auburn man at Everest sees death amid beauty
• Vashon Island - with the pictures and history of dispatches from the Everest
• Tom Whittaker - created the `a Footprint on Everest' popular CBS series, climbed everest in 1998
• Alan Arnette - Mountain Climber who submitted Everest twice, with pictures and story
• Sean Burch - Climbed Everest in May 22, 2003, with dispatches and a photo gallery
• PasangLhamu.org - Pasang Lhamu Sherpa - the first Nepali women to conquer the Everest

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Some inspiring and interesting Quotations on Everest

"Everest? Don't forget it's really just a big pile of rocks" —- David Breashears

"Strong motivation is the most important factor in getting you to the top" -- Edmund Hillary

"Everest for me, and I believe for the world, is the physical and symbolic manifestation of overcoming odds to achieve a dream" —- Tom Whittaker

"Because it is there. — George Mallory (1886-1924), answering to the question: 'Why do you want to climb Mt. Everest?'"

"The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the Lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy" —- George Mallory, 1924

"You've climbed the highest mountain in the world. Now what's left? It's all downhill from there. You have got to set your sights on something higher than Everest." -- Willi Unsoeld

"Everest is a matter of universal of human endeavor, a cause from which there is no withdrawl, whatever loses it may demand" — G O Dyrenfurth

"Feeling Wasted? Climb Everest before you Die!" -- NepalVista.com

"I can't understand why men make all this fuss about Everest -- it's only a mountain" -- Junko Tabei

For more quotes see Everest and Trekking quotes at Nepal Vista Quotes Section

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Useful Resources

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• Nasa.Gov:Everest Picture - what's it like to sit on top of the world? view 360 degree from Everest.
• PBS.org : Nova Online Adventure : Everest - about the everest, climbers, their stories and loses.
• Measuring Up the Mount Everest - a National Geographic Team measures a new height of Everest
• Bielefeldt.de : Everest - a brief history of Mount Everest
• Geographical Location of Everest - photos and texts detailing geography and climate of the region
• 100gogo.com/ever.htm - facts and a true story of first climb to the summit
• Kaji Sherpa - among the fastests everest climbers, read his personal life and experience
• Everest Peace Project : Photo Gallery various Photos of the Mount Everest and the region
• Dave's Everest Trek - getting out of your comfort zone, a travel diary to Everest Trek
• EverestMarathon.org.uk - highest marathon in the world is in Nepal!
• BlueTrek.Org : Everest Movies - movies of Everest Base Camp Treks
• 2001Everest.com - history in the making by National Federation of the Blind 2001 Everest Expedition

Did you now ? - Some Fun Facts Just For you!

• Mr. Jean-Marc Boivin of France makes the descended from the top to bottom in just 11 minutes by paragliding in 1988
• The only Climber in the world who can climb Everest from all of it's site is none other than is a Nepali. He name is Kushang Sherpa. Mr. Sherpa is an instructor at the Mountaineering Institute
• Largest Team ever went to submit everest was in 1975; a total of 410 people going all together! Double Wows!!
• Australian becomes the first country to have its nation who climbs Everest from all the way from sealevel to the top of the world. This happen in 1990 and his name is Tim Maccartney Snape.
• Worst Years on Everest: In 1993 8 died out of 129, in 1996: 15 died out of 98 people.
• The area on Everest that has cost many lives is the "Khumbu Ice Fall" taking 19 lives so far.
• Did you know that the First American, Stacey Allison climbs Everest in 1988, empowering many other Americans to follow her dream.
• Did you know everest was born 60 millian years ago and continues to rise about 2 inch every year.
• In 2003, Dr. Hillary received an, Honorary citizen of Nepal, as he celebrated the 50th anniversary of historic first climb.