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Clinton Thomas Dent writes book on Mt. Everest
Clinton Thomas Dent proves in his book Above the Snow Line that climbing Mt. Everest is possible -
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History of Climbing on Mount Everst
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George Mallory discovers the northern approach
George Mallory and his crew discover the northern approach in the 1921 English Reconaissance Experdition. They made it about seven thousand and five metres up the mountain, but were not prepared properly to continue, so they headed back down -
George Mallory Tries to Reach Summit Again
After George and his team failed to reach the top of Mount Everest, George tried again, this time patnering up with Andrew Irvine. They never returned. When they found Georges body on the mountain, near camp 4. Since then, it has been agued whether they managed to get to the top, before Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. -
Climbing on Nepal's side of the moutain first used
The south route (the now standard route) was first used by CHarles and Oscar Houston, Betsy Cowles and Bill Tilman, after China took over Tibet and banned people coming in from the north. -
The summit of Mt. Everest is reached for first time
On May 29th 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were only able to stay at the top for 15 minutes, as they has a limited air supply. While Tenzing gave offerings to the gods, Hillary took photos of the scenery -
First Person to the top 2 times
Nepalese Nawang Gombu reached the summit of Everest for the second time on an Indian Expedition. He reached it first on the 1963 American Expedition. -
First Woman To the Summit
Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to the summit on the world's tallest mountain. The women on the journey used the same route that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay used 22 years earlier. -
First to the top without oxygen
The Swiss Reinhold Messner and Austrian Peter Habeler became the first people to ever climb Mount Everest without the use of oxygen (tanks). -
Oldest Man to Successfully Climb up Mt. Everst
Ex soldier Min Bahadur Sherchan became the oldest man to ever scale the world's highest mountain in 2008. As he was accepting his Guiness Word Record, he said: "My main objective for climbing Everest was for world peace. I was determined to either climb the peak or die trying," At the time he was 76 years old -
Most Times Climbing Up Mt. Everest
Apa Sherpa broke his own Everest-climbing record for the third time in three years when he climbed the world's tallest mountain for the nineteenth time. Now, he has climbed two more times, make his total 21. -
Youngest Person to reach the summit
Jordan Romero became the youngest person to climbing the tallest mountain in the world aged 13. Before this climb though, Jordan had also climbed five of the Seven Summits (the highest mountains on each continent). The only mountain he has to climb now is the Vinson Massif in Antarctica. -
Oldest Woman To the top of the World
Tamae Watanabe, aged 73, became the oldest woman to ever climb Mount Everest. She broke her ten-year old record that she set in 2002, aged 63.