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Mt. Everest (8848 mtr.) Roof of the
world/Top of the world.
"The grandest thirty miles of the Himalaya".
That was how H.W. Tilman, the great British
mountaineer, described Nepal's Everest
region. The highest peak in the Earth, Mount
Everest stands 8848 meter/29,028 ft tall and
stands 5 and ½ miles above sea level.
One does the Everest trek to see the Everest
up close. To approach the world's highest
mountain as closely as is possible for a
trekker. To experience Everest.
But there is more to the Everest trek than
just Everest. For one there are all the
other beautiful snow clad peaks - Amadablam,
Kwangde, Thamserku, Pumori to name just a
few that emerges above the hills as you
trek, and the breathtaking mountain s
scenery all around deep, forested valleys
with the Dudh Kosi river surging below,
picturesque waterfalls, giant rhododendrons
in bloom (during spring and summer), the
amazing shapes and the shades of the
mountains beyond the tree line, awesome,
somber glaciers.
Tenzin Norgay Sherpa(Nepal) and Sir Edmund
Hillay (New Zealand) were the first climbers
of the Everest, via the South East Ridge
route on the 29th May 1953. In 1975 the
first woman ever Ms. Junko Tabei (Japan)
summitted via the South East Ridge. |
