Mount Everest

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Mount Everest
First Oxygen less Ascent May 8, 1978- Reinhold
Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the
South-East Ridge
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• Fastest Ascent (north side) Hans Kammerlander
  (IT) May,24,1996, via the standard North Col
  Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp
• Youngest person Temba Tsheri (NP) 15 on
  May,22,2001
• Oldest Person Sherman Bull May,25,2001 -64 yrs
• First Legally Blind Person Erik Weihenmeyer
  May,25,2001

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Other Facts

• Corpses remaining on Everest about 120
• Mt. Everest rises a few millimeters each year
  due to geological forces