how difficult it is to climb mt. everest?
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It is  very difficult to climb mt. Everest ,as some of the difficulties are- \nvery very cold.\nhave to carry heavy oxygen cylinders.\nnot aloud to throw garbage around so it has to be carried every were.\nhave to carry lot of lug age [warm clothes, ice boots , oxygen cylinders, etc ]\nhave to walk a lot.\nThese are just some difficulties otherwise there are many more.
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Sagarmatha is Mount Everest. its 8850 metres high.
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Mt. Everest was conquored by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, as widely recognized and recorded in history. But, this topic is controvercial.On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, both of the United Kingdom, made an attempt on the summit from which they never returned. Noel Odell, the expedition's geologist, wrote in his diary that he "saw M&I on the ridge, nearing base of final pyramid" at 12:50 pm that day. In 1979 climber Wang Hongbao of China revealed to a companion that he had discovered a body in 1975 thought at the time to be Irvine's, but he unfortunately was killed in a fall the very next day before he could provide precise details to anyone else.\n\nIn 1999, however, the famous Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition found instead Mallory's body in the predicted search area near the old Chinese camp. Controversy has raged in the mountaineering community as to whether the duo may have made it to the top of the world, 29 years before the confirmed ascent (and of course, safe descent) of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
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well no because the mountain is high and cold and it will take along time to get down and it would be hard to live in really.
1067011
it's possible but it's extremely hard. No pun intended.
1010829
depends on whether you are comfortable. No hard and fast. Nature will takes its course.
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I haven't, but search "climb everest" in yahoo.  And YES it can & has been done.
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it's not hard, just stay focused and remember:  you're there because YOU WANT to be there not because you have to be there.  keep your head up, and watch out for the anyone trying to pull you down!!
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Actually, the oxygen level is the same (about 21%) whether you are at sea level or at the top of Mount Everest.  But the air is thinner at higher elevations.  By thinner, I mean simply that the molecules that make the air are farther apart (less dense) than they are at lower elevations.  Because of this, the air doesn't retain as much heat.  This explains why it is colder.  \n\nAs to why it is more difficult to breath the higher up you go, as I said, the air is less dense, so with each breath you take, you are actually breathing in less air, even though the percentage of oxygen is the same.\n\nOne won't find differing concentrations of oxygen until one gets higher into the atmosphere, into the layer called the stratosphere, which begins at about 14-18 kilometers up.  Mt Everest, which has the highest elevation on earth, is about 8,848 meters high, and grows about 2.5 centimeters each year.
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I don't know why people keep on believing that Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to reach Mount Everest's top. He's English (NZ) by the way. I believe that there are many Nepali or Chinese who have conquered the Everest long before him. It's such a biased fact, just because he's a European/Caucasian. He might be the first 'recorded' man to conquer Everest, but certainly not the first person ever to climb Everest.
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At the bottom, because by the time you got to the top you would have a hard time breathing!\n\nAll I can say is that the pressure at the top of Mt. Everest would be lower.  So, does that mean that it would be easier to drink water with a straw or would it be harder?  I have a feeling that the answer has something to do with pressure equalization.  Sorry, I can't help more!  Good luck!
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Hello, the Base camp is at 5300 meters. You then have 3550 meters to climb to go to the top (8848 M to be exact).
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i dont think it is very hard
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According to Wikipedia, more than 1900 people have made it to the top and more than 175 have died trying, most of them are still laying where they died as conditions on the mountain make recovery of bodies nearly impossible.
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Are you talking OLH in Woodside, CA?\nI think it is hard, but I am not that great on climbs, but getting better, I did the King's climb twice last week, so getting better, just go for it you will likely make it if you are asking.
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On Everest, it's around 65 degrees Celsius.
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As far as I know 33 climbers have died (93 summited) since 1954 on K2. K2 is said to be the most difficult mountain in the world to climb.