10 Facts About Mount Everest (Sagarmatha)

 Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. It is located in Nepal at Solukhumbu District. Its height is 8848m. It is also name as Sagarmatha.

Mount Everest

1) Over 5,000 climbers have successfully reached Mount Everest's peak, including a 13-year-old, a blind person, and a 73-year-old woman

2) Mount Everest has about 200 dead bodies on it

3) In 2013, Yuichiro Miura, an 80-year-old Japanese, became the oldest person to make it to the top of Mount Everest and down

4) Historically, for every 100 climbers who have made it to the summit of Mount Everest, 4 have died

5) Climbing the Mount Everest costs around US$65,000

6) The boiling point of water at the top of Mt. Everest is 71 °C (160 °F)

7) A man rode his bike from Sweden to Mount Everest and then tried to summit. He turned around 300 feet from the top

8) The Mount Everest grows 0.1576 inches (4mm) each year

9) There's high-speed Internet on the way up to Mount Everest

10) Mount Everest shrank one inch (2.5 cm) due to the 2015 earthquake in Nepal