International Everest Day
It is well known that Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world. Many individuals imagine witnessing its enormous height in person someday, maybe even tackling its challenging slopes and summiting its breath-taking peak.
Celebrate this incredible natural marvel and the daring adventurers who have made the ascent on International Everest Day.
“Sagarmatha Day is an occasion to highlight the relationship between man and nature, advertise the attractiveness of Nepal’s peaks and attract visitors,”
Everest, a peak in the Himalayas that lies on the border of Nepal and China, has been given several names over the years. The Tibetan phrase Qomolangma means "Holy Mother," the Nepali name Sagarmatha means "the Head in the Great Blue Sky," and Sir George Everest, a British surveyor general of India, gave it the English name.
Mount Everest ascent attempts started in the 1920s with a number of British-led expeditions. While several climbers came very near to reaching the summit, Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary weren't able to pull off this ultimate accomplishment until the ninth trip in 1953.
On May 29, at 11:30 a.m., Norgay, a Nepali-Indian Sherpa, and Hillary, a New Zealander, became the first persons to ever step foot on the summit of the famed peak. While it's possible that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, two other climbers, reached the summit in 1924, they never returned after setting out on the last stage of their trek, leaving no evidence that they succeeded in their goal. Mallory's body was only found in 1999. Norgay and Hillary are the first climbers to reach the top of Mount Everest in this way.
Since 1953, tens of thousands more people—some as young as 13 and others as remarkable as 80—have continued to climb the peak, and the number of tourists grows every year. A popular location for winter activities like skiing, snowboarding, paragliding, and even BASE jumping, Everest is more than simply a climbing destination.
When Hillary passed away in 2008, Nepal established International Everest Day in his memory and picked the day of Hillary and Norgay's summit to commemorate the event. This day has become a worldwide holiday, despite the fact that the area still holds a variety of ceremonies and monuments.
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