Facts you need to know about Mount Everest

It has been 60 years since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgesserpa successfully climbed Mt. Everest. Hundreds of people have reached the summit of Mount Everest in the last 60 years.

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Everest is in our country. However, we are not able to go there even if we want to and we do not know various facts about it. We have presented some interesting facts about Mt. Everest here on the occasion of the Diamond Jubilee of Mt. Everest.

- Breathing at the highest point of Mt. Everest is one third more oxygen than other normal conditions. This is due to air pressure.

- At least one climber has died on Mount Everest every year since 1969. But in 1977, no one was killed on Mount Everest.

- Edmund Hillary's son Peter has climbed Mt. Everest five times.

- Tenzing Norgay Sherpa had attempted to climb Mt. Everest six times before reaching the summit for the first time with Edmund Hillary.

- 1996 became the deadliest year for Everest climbers. That year, 15 people lost their lives on Mount Everest.

- Jean-Marc Boivin from France is the fastest person to climb Mt. Everest. He descended from the summit of Mount Everest in 1988 in 11 minutes.

- The youngest person to climb Mt. Everest is 13-year-old Jordan Romero.

- A person who climbs a mountain needs 20,000 calories of energy per day.

- Babuchiri Sherpa is the person who spends the most time in the stove of Everest.

- Reinhold Messner and Peter Hambler to climb Mt. Everest for the first time without oxygen.

- On May 10, 1993, 40 people climbed Mt. Everest, the record for most people climbed Mt. Everest in one day.

- Everest at the rate of 4 millimeters per year from the high capital hotline.

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