Mount Everest, also called Chomolungma or Sagarmatha is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. Everest is measured as 8848m.

Everest is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, and is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet, China.

One June 8th 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made an attempt on the summit from which they never returned. Its not known whether or not they made the top. The first confirmed ascent was made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, coinciding with the royal coronation.

Everest is a goal for many a mountaineer, though those who attempt it risk their lives attempting to reach the summit. Temperatures can reach extremely low levels resulting in frostbite on exposed skin and the atmospheric pressure is so low climbers even on Oxygen struggle to breathe resulting in exhaustion. Conditions on Everest above 8000m is counted as “the death zone” where no human life can survive.

By the end of the 2006 climbing season there had been 3,050 ascents to the summit by 2,062 individuals, and at least 630 more ascents in 2007. There have been more than 200 deaths on the mountain, where conditions are so difficult that most corpses have been left where they fell; some are visible from standard climbing routes.