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Title: What is Mount Everest and why is it so hard to climb


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What is Mount Everest and why is it so hard to
climb?
  • By
  • Matthew

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Subtopics
Why is it so hard to climb?
What is it?
The first Climb
3
What is it?
  • 29,035 feet tall
  • 5 miles high
  • Himalayan mountain range
  • Still growing because of the India

This is what Mount Everest would look like up
close
4
This is where the India subcontinent is located.
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What is it? (Cont.)
  • Named after Sir George Everest
  • One of the hardest mountains to climb in the
    world!

This is a picture of Sir George Everest.
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Why is it so hard to climb?
  • Avalanches
  • Crevasses
  • Low oxygen
  • Headaches

This is a picture of someone on Everest with
an oxygen mask.
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Why is it so hard to climb? (Cont.)
  • Very cold temperatures
  • Extreme snowstorms
  • Seeing difficult
  • Frostbite

This is what a snowstorm on Everest would be
like.
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The First Climb
  • Sir Edmund Hillary
  • Tenzing Norgay
  • Nawang Gombu
  • Thomas Hornbein
  • William Unsoeld
  • Junko Tabei

This is a picture of Tenzing Norgay and Sir
Edmund Hillary up Everest
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Timeline
1953- Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Noray climb
Everest
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Timeline
1963- Nawang Gombu
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Timeline
1963- Thomas Horbein and William Unsoeld
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Timeline
1975- Junko Tabei
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Conclusion
  • Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the
    first people to climb Everest.
  • There is extreme weather on Everest.
  • Mount everest is 29,035 feet tall.

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    rs/images/george_everest_200.jpg
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    enzing-large.jpg
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