1. Sir Andrew Waugh decided to honor his ancestor Sir George Everest by naming the highest summit Mount Everest. This was declared in 1865.
2. Ideal height gain per day for mountaineers is 1,000 ft above 10,000 ft.
3. In 1949, Nepal opened its borders to the world.
4. A description that Mallory used for Mount Everest was, “a great white fang excrescent on the jawbone of the earth.”
5. Mallory’s famous reply to the question, why do men climb Everest? “Because it is there.”
6. In 1958, Sir Edmund Hillary led an expedition to hunt down the Yeti, or commonly known as big foot.
7. Dr. George Schaller states that the Yeti may still exist and that high altitude cannot rule out the fact that he does exist.
8. Reinhold Messner was the first to climb Everest alone.
9. When he reached the top of the Everest, Tenzing buried his daughter’s red and blue pencils.
10. About 150 people have died so far in different expeditions to Mount Everest.
