Her first 8, 000 peak had been achieved 9 years earlier, on May 23, 2001, when she climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.

He achieved fame by becoming the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest in 2005, aged 21 years 4 months.

* 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston

* 1980 – Mount Everest, 1st Winter Ascent by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.

* 1978 – First ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler.

Some of these valleys historically were more accessible from Tibet than Nepal and are populated by people with Tibetan affinities called Bhotiya or Bhutia including the famous Sherpas in Kumbu valley near Mount Everest.

* June 8 – George Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen " going strong for the top " of Mount Everest by teammate Noel Odell at 12: 50 P. M.

** First flight over Mount Everest, a British expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale, and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston

In Centralia, Washington on November 11, 1919, IWW member and army veteran Wesley Everest was turned over to the lynch mob by jail guards and lynched.

Two influences on Boole were later claimed by his wife, Mary Everest Boole: a universal mysticism tempered by Jewish thought, and Indian logic .. Mary Boole stated that an adolescent mystical experience provided for his life's work:

Since 1824, Indian logic attracted the attention of many Western scholars, and has had an influence on important 19th-century logicians such as Charles Babbage, Augustus De Morgan, and particularly George Boole, as confirmed by his wife Mary Everest Boole who wrote in an " open letter to Dr Bose " titled " Indian Thought and Western Science in the Nineteenth Century " written in 1901 < ref >

Everest Records issued a recording of Hindemith's postwar When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd (" A Requiem for Those We Love ") on LP, conducted by Hindemith.

It was platted with the name Mapleton by Edward R. Everest in 1837 and a post office with that name was established on January 29, 1844.

In fact, the elevation of Mount Everest was corrected in the late 1980s by using a Transit receiver to re-survey a nearby benchmark.

The group also collected over two tons of trash ( transported down the mountain by support groups along the way ) that was left behind on Mount Everest from previous climbing expeditions.

** Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster by Jon Krakauer

As a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition 1963 led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, he was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

* For being the first American to scale Mount Everest, Whittaker was awarded the Hubbard Medal by United States President John F. Kennedy.

The Principal Triangulation of Great Britain was begun by the Ordnance Survey in 1783, though not completed until 1853 ; and the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, which ultimately named and mapped Mount Everest and the other Himalayan peaks, was begun in 1801.

As a mountaineer, he is remembered for his heroic actions during the 1933 expedition to Mount Everest led by Hugh Ruttledge, in which he brought down 8 Sherpas from Camp 6 ( above 27, 000ft ) in a whiteout.

Everest and burning a Yankees cap at its base camp ; hiring professional exorcists and Father Guido Sarducci to " purify " Fenway Park ; spray painting a " Reverse Curve " street sign on Storrow Drive to change it to say " Reverse the Curse " ( the sign wasn't replaced until just after the 2004 World Series win ); and finding a piano owned by Ruth that he had supposedly pushed into a pond near his Sudbury, Massachusetts farm, Home Plate Farm.

The main summit of Lhotse was first climbed on May 18, 1956 by the Swiss team of Ernst Reiss and Fritz Luchsinger from the Swiss Mount Everest / Lhotse Expedition.

* John Angelo Jackson, Adventure Travels in the Himalaya Chapter 17, Everest and the Elusive Snowman, 1954 updated material, Indus Publishing Company, 2005, ISBN 81-7387-175-2.

Image: Mount Everest from Rongbuk may 2005. JPG | View of Mount Everest and Rongbuk Valley from the Rongbuk Glacier

* Everest Years ( CD ; 1959, 1960 ; 2005 ; VI Music )

* Yorkshire Transvestite Found Dead On Everest ( 2005, Hayloft )

Viesturs's recent climbs have included Broad Peak and Nanga Parbat in 2003, Mount Everest ( seventh time ) in 2009 and Annapurna in 2005.

Kitap, Everest Yayınları ( 2005 )

Expedition Everest under construction in January 2005

In 2005, Disney, Discovery Networks and Conservation International conducted real-life expeditions to Nepal as part of the promotion for Expedition Everest.

* A new peak for Disney-St. Petersburg Times article on Expedition Everest ( Dec. 11, 2005 )

Moni Mulepati is the first non-Sherpa Nepalese woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, having reached the peak on 30 May 2005.

Mars has the largest volcano in the Solar System called Olympus Mons, which is more than three times the height of Mount Everest, with a diameter of 520 km ( 323 miles ).

Its glaciers include the Gangotri and Yamunotri ( Uttarakhand ) and Khumbu glaciers ( Mount Everest region ), and Zemu ( Sikkim ).

* Everest, the IMAX movie ( 1998 ).

Everest is located at ( 39. 676743 ,-95. 425269 ).

* William Siri ( 1919 – 2004 ), co-leader of the first American expedition to successfully climb Mount Everest, and past President of the Sierra Club ( 1964 – 1966 ).

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).

* Younghusband, Sir Francis The Epic of Mount Everest ( ISBN 0-330-48285-8, reprint 2001 ).

Everest ).

The Bar-headed Goose is thought to be one of the world's highest flying birds, having been heard flying across Mount Makalu ( the fifth highest mountain on earth at ) and apparently seen over Mount Everest (, although this is a second hand report with no verification ).

* Plaza de Mulas, 4, 370m ( 14, 340 ft ): Base camp, claimed to be the second largest in the world ( after Everest ).

Everest ( Nepali: Sagarmatha ).

It also included two Austrians ( cartographer Erwin Schneider and Ernst Senn ) and two Swiss ( Bruno Spirig and Arthur Spöhel ), and was the first expedition in the Everest area to include Americans ( Fred Beckey, George Bell, and Richard McGowan ).

Under Schneider's direction they completed the first map of the Everest area ( 1: 50, 000 photogrammetric ).

" He is renowned for making the first solo ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen " eight-thousanders " ( peaks over above sea level ).

After a season without a title, highlighted at the international level by obtaining greatest goal-difference in a Libertadores tie, against Everest of Ecuador, 14 – 1 overall ( 5 – 0 and 9 – 1 ), Peñarol won the Uruguayan championship in 1964 and 1965, reaching and losing the Libertadores final in the latter year ( to Independiente de Avellaneda ).

Kempe was a member of the Mount Everest Foundation committee ( 1956 – 62 ), chairman of the Round Square International Service Committee ( 1979 – 87 ).

On 1 May 1963, around 1: 00 pm Jim Whittaker, outfitted in Eddie Bauer outerwear became the first American to stand atop Everest, the worlds highest mountain at 8, 848 meters ( 29, 029 feet ).

* October 29 – Flying a North American YF-100A Super Sabre, U. S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Frank K. " Speedy Pete " Everest sets a world speed record of 755. 149 mph ( 1, 216. 021 km / hr ).

He was a Surveyor-General of India, after whom Mount Everest was named, there is also a street in Crickhowell named after him ( Everest Drive ).

Gyachung Kang (, Gyāchung Kāng ; ) is a mountain in the Mahalangur Himal section of the Himalaya, and is the highest peak between Cho Oyu ( 8, 201 m ) and Mount Everest ( 8, 848 m ).

Everest from base camp to peak ( due to the structure of Everest, the peak cannot be seen from the base camp ).

* The highest point measured from sea level is the summit of Mount Everest that borders Nepal and China, and has been reached by roughly 3, 000 climbers, first in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay Sherpa of nepal and Sir Edmund Hillary of New Zealand ( with speculation that it may have been reached in 1924 ).