Definition of Mount Everest :

A mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world.

Nepali Name :

Sagarmatha (which means Goddess of the sky)


Tibetan Name

Chomolungma (which means mother Goddess of the Universe)


Height : 8848 meters or 29,029 ft


Location : On the border between Nepal and Tibet, where all of the worlds 14 Eight thousand meter peaks are found.


Longitude

86º55’40″ E


Latitude latitude 270 45’ N and 280 0’ N and longitude 800 30’ E and 870 0’ E in the Solukhumbhu District of Sagarmatha Zone of the kingdom of Nepal


Local People : Sherpas and Tibetan



Longest Stay on top : Babu Chiri Sherpa, who stayed at the summit for twenty one and half hours.


First Climbers : Tenzing Norgay from Nepal and Sir Edmund Percival Hillary from New Zealand, on 5/29/1953 via the South-East Ridge Route


First Nepali Women to Climb : Pasang Llamu Sherpa, on April 22nd, 1993


One of the best climbers : Nepali, Apa Sherpa, climbed Everest 11 times.


Fastest Ascent Babu Chhiri Sherpa on June 21 2000, ascent from south side


Hans Kammerlander May 24,1996, ascent from north side


Youngest Climber : Nepali, Temba Tsheri Age 15 on May 22, 2001


First Women Climber : In 1975 - The first woman to summit Everest was Junko Tabei, a Japanese, who reached the summit via the South-East Ridge route.


Oldest Person to Climb : Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, 2003


Oldest Women to Climb : Anna Czerwinska May 22, 2000


Largest Group to reach the summit : 50 people on May 2002


First Couple to ever get married on the summit : Nepalese Mona Mulepati and Pem Dorje Sherpa on May 30th 2005


Number of Mount Everest Climbers So Far : About 1,500 men and women from 64 nations

SOME Amazing Facts ..............Everyday for friends..........

Have a history teacher explain this----- if they can.

Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846.
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946.

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860.
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960.

Both were particularly concerned with civil rights.
Both wives lost their children while living in the White House.

Both Presidents were shot on a Friday.
Both Presidents were shot in the head.

Now it gets really weird.

Lincoln 's secretary was named Kennedy.
Kennedy's Secretary was named Lincoln.

Both were assassinated by Southerners.
Both were succeeded by Southerners named Johnson.

Andrew Johnson, who succeeded Lincoln, was born in 1808.
Lyndon Johnson, who succeeded Kennedy, was born in 1908.

John Wilkes Booth, who assassinated Lincoln, was born in 1839.
Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated Kennedy, was born in 1939.

Both assassins were known by their three names.
Both names are composed of fifteen letters.

Now hang on to your seat.

Lincoln was shot at the theater named 'Ford.'
Kennedy was shot in a car called ' Lincoln' made by 'Ford.'

Lincoln was shot in a theater and his assassin ran and hid in a warehouse.
Kennedy was shot from a warehouse and his assassin ran and hid in a theater.

Booth and Oswald were assassinated before their trials.

And here's the kicker...

A week before Lincoln was shot, he was in Monroe, Maryland
A week before Kennedy was shot, he was with Marilyn Monroe.

Creepy huh?

• Shakespeare invented the word 'assassination' and 'bump'.

• Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand.

• The ant always falls over on its right side when intoxicated.

• The electric chair was invented by a dentist.

• The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to Squirt blood 30 feet.

• Wearing headphones for just an hour will increase the bacteria in your ear By 700 times.

• Ants don't sleep .

• Owls have eyeballs that are tubular in shape, because of this, they cannot move their eyes.

• A bird requires more food in proportion to its size than a baby or a cat.

• The mouse is the most common mammal in the US.

• A newborn kangaroo is about 1 inch in length.

• A cow gives nearly 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.

• The Canary Islands were not named for a bird called a canary. They were named after a breed of large dogs. The Latin name was Canariae insulae - "Island of Dogs."

• There are 701 types of pure breed dogs.

• A polecat is not a cat. It is a nocturnal European weasel.

• The animal responsible for the most human deaths world-wide is the mosquito.

• The biggest pig in recorded history was Big Boy of Black Mountain, North Carolina, who was weighed at 1,904 pounds in 1939.

• Cats respond most readily to names that end in an "ee" sound.

• A cat cannot see directly under its nose. This is why the cat cannot seem to find tidbits on the floor.

• Pigs, walruses and light-colored horses can be sunburned.

* Snakes are immune to their own poison.

• An iguana can stay under water for 28 minutes.

• Cats have more than one hundred vocal sounds, while dogs only have about ten.

• The biggest member of the cat family is the male lion, which weighs 528 pounds (240 kilograms).

• Most lipstick contains fish scales.

• Rats multiply so quickly that in 18 months, two rats could have over a million descendants.

• Each day in the US, animal shelters are forced to destroy 30,000 dogs and cats.

• A shrimp's heart is in their head.

• A pregnant goldfish is called a twit.

• A cockroach will live nine days without its head, before it starves to death.

• The cat lover is an ailurophile, while a cat hater is an ailurophobe.

• A woodpecker can peck twenty times a second.

• It may take longer than two days for a chick to break out of its shell.

• Dragonflies are one of the fastest insects, flying 50 to 60 mph.

• Despite man's fear and hatred of the wolf, it has not ever been proved that a non-rabid wolf ever attacked a human.

• There are more than 100 million dogs and cats in the United States.

• Americans spend more than 5.4 billion dollars on their pets each year.

• Cat's urine glows under a black light .

• The largest cockroach on record is one measured at 3.81 inches in length.

• It is estimated that a single toad may catch and eat as many as 10,000 insects in the course of a summer.

• Amphibians eyes come in a variety shapes and sizes. Some even have square or heart-shaped pupils.

• It would require an average of 18 hummingbirds to weigh in at 1 ounce.

• Dogs that do not tolerate small children well are the St. Bernard, the Old English sheep dog, the Alaskan malamute, the bull terrier, and the toy poodle.

• Moles are able to tunnel through 300 feet of earth in a day.

• Howler monkeys are the noisiest land animals. Their calls can be heard over 2 miles away.

• A quarter of the horses in the US died of a vast virus epidemic in 1872.

• The fastest bird is the Spine-tailed swift, clocked at speeds of up to 220 miles per hour.

• There is no single cat called the panther. The name is commonly applied to the leopard, but it is also used to refer to the puma and the jaguar. A black panther is really a black leopard. A capon is a castrated rooster.

• The world's largest rodent is the Capybara. An Amazon water hog that looks like a guinea pig, it can weigh more than 100 pounds.

• The poison-arrow frog has enough poison to kill about 2,200 people.

• The hummingbird, the loon, the swift, the kingfisher, and the grebe are all birds that cannot walk.

• The poisonous copperhead snake smells like fresh cut cucumbers.

• A chameleon's tongue is twice the length of its body.

• Worker ants may live seven years and the queen may live as long as 15 years.

• The blood of mammals is red, the blood of insects is yellow, and the blood of lobsters is blue.

• Cheetahs make a chirping sound that is much like a bird's chirp or a dog's yelp. The sound is so an intense, it can be heard a mile away.

• The underside of a horse's hoof is called a frog. The frog peels off several times a year with new growth.

• The bloodhound is the only animal whose evidence is admissible in an American court. 98% of brown bears in the United States are in Alaska.

• Before air conditioning was invented, white cotton slipcovers were put on furniture to keep the air cool.

• The Barbie doll has more than 80 careers.

• To make one pound of whole milk cheese, 10 pounds of whole milk is needed.

• 99% of pumpkins that are sold for decoration.

• Every 30 seconds a house fire doubles in size.

• The month of December is the most popular month for weddings in the Philippines.

• A one ounce milk chocolate bar has 6 mg of caffeine.

• Carbon monoxide can kill a person in less than 15 minutes.

• The largest ever hailstone weighed over 1kg and fell in Bangladesh in 1986.

• Ants can live up to 16 years.

• In Belgium, there is a museum that is just for strawberries.

• The sense of smell of an ant is just as good as a dog's.

• Popped popcorn should be stored in the freezer or refrigerator as this way it can stay crunchy for up to three weeks.

• Coca-Cola was originally green.

• The most common name in the world is Mohammed.

• The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with.

• The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

• TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row ! of the keyboard.

• Women blink nearly twice as much as men!!

• You can't kill yourself by holding your breath.

• It is impossible to lick your elbow.

• People say "Bless you " when you sneeze because when you sneeze, your heart stops for a millisecond.

• It is physically impossible for pigs to look up into the sky.

• The "sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick" is said to be the toughest

• tongue twister in the English language.

• If you sneeze too hard, you can fracture a rib. If you try to suppress a sneeze, you can rupture a blood vessel in your head or neck and die.

• Each king in a deck of playing cards represents great king from history.

Spades - King David

Clubs - Alexander the Great,

Hearts - Charlemagne

Diamonds - Julius Caesar.



• If a statue of a person in the park on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes.

• What do bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers and laser printers all have in common? Ans. - All invented by women.

• The only food that doesn't spoil is HoneY.

• A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.

• A snail can sleep for three years.

• All polar bears are left handed.

• American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive from each salad served in first-class.

• Butterflies taste with their feet.

• Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.

• In the last 4000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.

• On average, people fear spiders more than they do death.

• The cigarette lighter was invented before the match.

• Most lipstick contains fish scales.

• Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different.
Tapeworms range in size from about 0.04 inch to more than 50 feet in length.

• A baby bat is called a pup.

• German Shepherds bite humans more than any other breed of dog.

• A female mackerel lays about 500,000 eggs at one time.

• It takes 35 to 65 minks to produce the average mink coat. The numbers for other types of fur coats are: beaver - 15; fox - 15 to 25; ermine - 150; chinchilla - 60 to 100