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Everest
8.848 meters
Ranking: 1
Altitude: 8.848 m.
Location: 27°57'16''N, 86°56'40''E. Himalaya - frontier between Nepal and Tíbet.
First ascent: 29 May 1953 by Edmund Hillary (NZ) and Tenzing Norgay (India), members of a British expedition led by John Hunt.
Peak conquered by Edurne Pasaban on 23 May 2001.
On the border between Nepal and Tibet
The roof of the world was the first eight-thousander that Edurne Pasabán climbed. The mythical Everest started the career of the girl from Tolosa to the 14 eight-thousanders in 2001.
Its 8,848 meters have made the wrongly called Everest the most famous mountain on the planet as the highest. Its name in Tibetan is Chomolungma (the Mother God of Abundance), or Sagarmatha in Sherpa language (the ethnic group living in the Khumbu Valley, at whose head the mountain stands). Every spring, hundreds of men and women seek its summit, maybe too many: the progressive commercialisation of the mountain has caused a growing debate.
Very few attempt it without supplementary oxygen, and almost no one ventures off the two meticulously equipped "normal" routes, but the mountain has 18 routes, some still awaiting their first full ascent. Apart from this, Everest is not a mountain of great technical difficulty, but its nearly 9,000 metres make it a battle against tiredness and the effects of cold and altitude; to underestimate it can be a costly mistake. In particular, Everest gains its victims while resting, and not so much due to accidents as to exhaustion, faults in the oxygen systems and exposure to extreme altitude.
Everest was Edurne’s first eight-thousander: she climbed it in 2001. She then used supplementary oxygen, and in the future is considering doing it again without the help of the bottled gas.
Its 8,848 meters have made the wrongly called Everest the most famous mountain on the planet as the highest. Its name in Tibetan is Chomolungma (the Mother God of Abundance), or Sagarmatha in Sherpa language (the ethnic group living in the Khumbu Valley, at whose head the mountain stands). Every spring, hundreds of men and women seek its summit, maybe too many: the progressive commercialisation of the mountain has caused a growing debate.
Very few attempt it without supplementary oxygen, and almost no one ventures off the two meticulously equipped "normal" routes, but the mountain has 18 routes, some still awaiting their first full ascent. Apart from this, Everest is not a mountain of great technical difficulty, but its nearly 9,000 metres make it a battle against tiredness and the effects of cold and altitude; to underestimate it can be a costly mistake. In particular, Everest gains its victims while resting, and not so much due to accidents as to exhaustion, faults in the oxygen systems and exposure to extreme altitude.
Everest was Edurne’s first eight-thousander: she climbed it in 2001. She then used supplementary oxygen, and in the future is considering doing it again without the help of the bottled gas.
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