Mount Everest
By: Laura, Chris, Aaron, and Kara
Warnings:
There are two major problems to be faced for the soon to be expeditionist. One is the force of air pressure as you go up the mountains.
Some common happenings when there is high air pressure are muscle fatigue, hyperventilating, fainting or other things needing medical attention. To overcome these feelings Dr. Schoene recommends: “It’s useful for people to have their breathing stimulated by low oxygen.” When you take little amounts of oxygen from your air tank at a time, your body won’t scream for more when you reach the Summit. An air tank is most definitely recommended.
Another problem to be faced are the dreaded avalanches. An avalanche forms when a fresh layer of snow falls on the Summit. When the temperatures reach a certain degree point the snow freezes. This process continues until there is to much snow, and the weight is very heavy and occurs in layers. The bottom layer breaks off, and the rest of the snow falls behind it down the mountain. If climbing and you hear a rumbling, turn and run!
Please don’t be afraid of your climb. There will be a Sherpa going up the mountain with you, and will know what to do in both of these emergencies. Please feel safe, we’re just warning you of these things for your own protection.
Clothing:
There are five different layers of clothing. First layer is the basic and worn at all times which is long underwear and socks. Second layer or daytime clothes are pants,boots, and pile jacket. The third layer is on top of the above is down jacket, hat, and gloves. The fourth layer is the icefall camp witch is glasses, mask, oxygen bottle,oxygen mask, and radio. The last layer is down suite, mask, black boots, ice axe, ski goggles, oxygen bottle, oxygen mask, and radio.
Summits and Survivors
In the past five years, there have been many people to get to the summit, and also many who survived. Below is a table to show you just how many reached the summit and survived.
Year Summit Survived
1996 98 83
1997 85 76
1998 125 121
1999 116 113
2000 142 140
General Facts
Coordinates: 28 degrees N, 87 degrees E
First Climb: Tenzing Norgay of Nepal and Edmund Percival Hillary of New Zealand on 5-29-53
First Woman: Junko Tabei of Japan on May 16, 1975
Solo Climber: Reinhold Messner of Italy on 8-20-80
First Climbers without bottled oxygen: Peter Habeler of Austria and Reinhold Messner of Italy on May 8, 1978
Youngest Person: Shambu Tamang of Nepal (age 16) on May 5, 1973
First Married Couple to summit together: Andrej & Marija Stremfelj of Slovenia, on 10/7/90
First Son of a summiter: Peter Hillary of New Zealand on 5/10/90
First woman without oxygen: Lydia Bradey of New Zealand on 10/14/88
Oldest Person: Toshio Yamamoto age 63 years + 311 days
Oldest woman: Anna Czerwinska born 7/10/49
First father and son to summit together: Jean Noel Roche and his son Zebulon
First case of two brothers who reach the Summit together: Alberto and Felix
Inurrategui 9-25-92
First female ascent without oxygen: Lydia Bradey of New Zealand 10/14/88
Bibliography
Netscape: EVEREST FACTS
http://www.everestnews.com/everest1.htm
Netscape: Everest Statistics; Summits and deaths
http://www.everestnews.com/statisti.htm
Netscape: Mystery on Mount Everest
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/everest/lost/mystery/mallory.htm Friday, May 11, 2001.
Tuesday, May 15, 2001
Monday, May 14, 2001