Mount Everest
It has been a long time since I came back to these pages, penning what is catching me in interest - it can be anger, anguish, pride, info - anything of value. When I am away from blogging for quite sometime, I feel very very guilty within myself. But inertia takes over and prevents from coming back. I have to fight that resistance and get back to it.
If writing, within the comforts of a table and chair itself needs so much mental work, just imagine what it would require to climb the highest peak. so this post is all about some known facts about my most fascinating topic MOUNT EVEREST
Recently amongst all those heart rendering scenarios about Mangalore Air crash on the same day, there was yet another Human Endurance tribute that happened
On 22nd May, 2010 Early Saturday morning, 16-year-old Indian schoolboy from the National Capital Region, Arjun Vajpai, became the youngest Indian to successfully climb the world's highest peak, 8,848-metre-high Mount Everest, via the traditional South Col route in Nepal. Arjun equalled the record of a Nepalese Sherpa Temba Tsheri, who also climbed the peak when he was sixteen. Arjun's team was led by Apa Sherpa, 50, who broke his own record to become the first man to climb the peak for a record 20th time. It also broke the record of Krushnaa Patil, 18, from Maharashtra, who became the youngest Indian to reach the highest peak in 2009. Along with Arjun, also making it to the top was an Indian woman Mamta Sodha, who reached the summit at 10:24 a.m.
The story doesnt stop here it continued beyond
The same day within hours, this record was taken over by the most youngest person to climb the Everest.
A 13-year-old American Jordan Romero on Saturday became the youngest climber to ever summit Mount Everest.
what a role model for the youngsters that the whole world will be at your feet, if you want to achieve your dreams. Just go for it. WOW. My congratulations to these two youngsters from different countries to motivate their generation to achieve the best results in life for all.
Coming to some facts
1. 29th May 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to officially conquer Mount Everest.
2. In June 8th, 1924. George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were sighted just 400 meters below the summit. After which the pair weren't seen at all. It is also believed that both of them might have climbed the summit and would have perished on the return back to the Camp V. While George Mallory's body was recovered finally in 1994, Irvine body is yet to be located.
3. Till date there has been a total of 2249 + successful summits
4. 20th May 1965 - A.S. Cheema and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first Indians to summit the Everest. Gombu becomes the first person to summit Everest twice Out of the first seventeen summits of Everest. Additional summits were achieved by Sonam Gyatso, Sonam Wangyal, C.P. Vohra, Ang Kami, H.P.S. Ahluwalia, H.C.S. Rawat, and Phu Dorje during the same expedition.
5. . May 16 1975 Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to reach the summit via the South-East Ridge. May 27, Tibetan woman, Phantog becomes the second woman to summit Everest, losing this honor to Junko Tabei by only a few days. She is the first woman to summit from the Tibetan side.
6. August 5 1978: this day becomes First Ascent without bottled oxygen by Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner.
7. August 20th 1980 Reinhold Messner does the Solo summiting the North Col to the North Face and the Great Couloir. He climbed for three days entirely alone from his base camp at 6500 meters without the use of artificial oxygen via the North Col/North Face route.
8. May 22nd, 1984 - Bachandri Pal became the first Indian woman and the fifth woman climber to scale Everest
9. 1996: Ang Rita Sherpa (born 1947), Summits Everest for the 10th time. (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995,and 1996 all ascents without bottled oxygen.)
Of course, while Mt Everest has given the world many achievers - there are also known tragedies. The latest is the following new item
"Everest team forced to leave sick British climber to die. This story was reported on June 10th." For the full article follow the link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/everest-team-forced-to-leave-sick-british-climber-to-die-1988979.html
But all said, it is the passion which makes people climb their own peaks in life. My only prayer to God is "Please give me another life to enable me to climb this great peak and say my prayers there on the summit"
If writing, within the comforts of a table and chair itself needs so much mental work, just imagine what it would require to climb the highest peak. so this post is all about some known facts about my most fascinating topic MOUNT EVEREST
Recently amongst all those heart rendering scenarios about Mangalore Air crash on the same day, there was yet another Human Endurance tribute that happened
On 22nd May, 2010 Early Saturday morning, 16-year-old Indian schoolboy from the National Capital Region, Arjun Vajpai, became the youngest Indian to successfully climb the world's highest peak, 8,848-metre-high Mount Everest, via the traditional South Col route in Nepal. Arjun equalled the record of a Nepalese Sherpa Temba Tsheri, who also climbed the peak when he was sixteen. Arjun's team was led by Apa Sherpa, 50, who broke his own record to become the first man to climb the peak for a record 20th time. It also broke the record of Krushnaa Patil, 18, from Maharashtra, who became the youngest Indian to reach the highest peak in 2009. Along with Arjun, also making it to the top was an Indian woman Mamta Sodha, who reached the summit at 10:24 a.m.
The story doesnt stop here it continued beyond
The same day within hours, this record was taken over by the most youngest person to climb the Everest.
A 13-year-old American Jordan Romero on Saturday became the youngest climber to ever summit Mount Everest.
what a role model for the youngsters that the whole world will be at your feet, if you want to achieve your dreams. Just go for it. WOW. My congratulations to these two youngsters from different countries to motivate their generation to achieve the best results in life for all.
Coming to some facts
1. 29th May 1953 - Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first people to officially conquer Mount Everest.
2. In June 8th, 1924. George Mallory and Sandy Irvine were sighted just 400 meters below the summit. After which the pair weren't seen at all. It is also believed that both of them might have climbed the summit and would have perished on the return back to the Camp V. While George Mallory's body was recovered finally in 1994, Irvine body is yet to be located.
3. Till date there has been a total of 2249 + successful summits
4. 20th May 1965 - A.S. Cheema and Sherpa Nawang Gombu were the first Indians to summit the Everest. Gombu becomes the first person to summit Everest twice Out of the first seventeen summits of Everest. Additional summits were achieved by Sonam Gyatso, Sonam Wangyal, C.P. Vohra, Ang Kami, H.P.S. Ahluwalia, H.C.S. Rawat, and Phu Dorje during the same expedition.
5. . May 16 1975 Junko Tabei of Japan became the first woman to reach the summit via the South-East Ridge. May 27, Tibetan woman, Phantog becomes the second woman to summit Everest, losing this honor to Junko Tabei by only a few days. She is the first woman to summit from the Tibetan side.
6. August 5 1978: this day becomes First Ascent without bottled oxygen by Peter Habeler and Reinhold Messner.
7. August 20th 1980 Reinhold Messner does the Solo summiting the North Col to the North Face and the Great Couloir. He climbed for three days entirely alone from his base camp at 6500 meters without the use of artificial oxygen via the North Col/North Face route.
8. May 22nd, 1984 - Bachandri Pal became the first Indian woman and the fifth woman climber to scale Everest
9. 1996: Ang Rita Sherpa (born 1947), Summits Everest for the 10th time. (1983, 1984, 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990, 1992, 1993, 1995,and 1996 all ascents without bottled oxygen.)
Of course, while Mt Everest has given the world many achievers - there are also known tragedies. The latest is the following new item
"Everest team forced to leave sick British climber to die. This story was reported on June 10th." For the full article follow the link
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/everest-team-forced-to-leave-sick-british-climber-to-die-1988979.html
But all said, it is the passion which makes people climb their own peaks in life. My only prayer to God is "Please give me another life to enable me to climb this great peak and say my prayers there on the summit"
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