Tibetan Name: Chomolungma

Rest Of The World: Mount Everest

Location: Tibet - Nepal

Age: 60 Million Years Old

Height :

1852 First Height Recorded: 29.002ft 8.839m

1955 Revised Height: 29.028ft 8.848m

1999 Revised Height: 29.035ft 8.850m

2005 Revised Height: 29.017ft 2inches 8.844.43m

or: Sea Level to Mount Everest Summit is 5.5 Miles

The Sides of Everest: The North Face, The South West Face, The East (Kangshung) Face

1859: Peak XV renamed Mount Everest to honour Sir George Everest

1921: First British Expedition to Mount Everest

1924: George Leigh Mallory and Andrew Irvine are last seen going for the summit on the 8th June

1953: On the 29th May Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first people to stand on the summit of Mount Everest

1963: Jim Whittaker became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 1st May

1975: The Everest Expedition from China had a record number of members, 410 in total

1975: On the 16th May Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

1975: Doug Scott became the first Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 24th September

1978: The 29th May marks the 25th Anniversary of the first ascent of Mount Everest

1978: Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to climb Mount Everest without any Artificial Oxygen on the 8th May

1980: Leszek Cichyand Krzysztof from Poland made the first Winter ascent of Mount Everest on the 17th February

1980: Reinhold Messner without Artificial Oxygen (for the second time) reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 20th August by going Solo

1982: Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker from Briton disappear whilst high on the Northeast Ridge on the 17th May

1985: On the 21st April Chris Bonington stood on the summit of Mount Everest

1986: Tenzing Norgay aged 72 passed away on the 9th May

1988: On the 12th may Stephen Venableswas the first Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest without any Artificial Oxygen

1988: The first American woman Stacy Allison reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 29th May

1988: Lydia Bradey from New Zealand was the first woman to summit Mount Everest without any Artificial Oxygen

1990: Andrej and Marija Stremfeij from Slovenia became the first married couple to reach the summit of Everest 

1990: British actor Brian Blessed made his first trip to Everest this year and also in 1993, 1996, although he has never stood on its summit

1991: October 21st saw Andy Elson and Leo Dickinson piloted the first Balloon Flight over Mount Everest

1993: The first female Sherpa Pasang Lhmhu reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 23rd April but died during her desent

1993: The first British woman Rebecca Stephens reaches the summit of Mount Everest on the 17th May

1995: Alison Hargreaves was the first British woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest Solo and without any Artificial Oxygen but later the same year died while descending from the summit of K2

1996: On the 23rd May Sherpa Ang Rita made his tenth ascent of Mount Everest all without Artificial Oxygen

1996: Jamling Norgay son of Tenzing reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 23rd May

1996: On the 24th May Hans Kammerlander made the fastest ascent on the North Side in 16 hours and 45 minutes from Base Camp to Summit 

1996: Was the worst year for deaths on Mount Everest totalling 15

1998: Bear Gryllsat the age of 23 became the youngest Briton to stand on the summit of Mount Everest on the 26th May

1998: Tom Whittaker from USA became the first disabled (has an artifical leg) person to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 27th May

1998: On the 8th November Sir John Hunt leader of the 1953 British Expedition paased away age 88

1999: The National Geographic Society revised the height of Everest from 29.028ft to 29.035ft

1999: On the 1st May Conrad Anker a member of the Mallory & Irvine research Expedition found the body of George Leigh Mallory at 26,700 feet/8,138 meters on the North Face

1999: On the 6th May Sherpa Babu Chhiri was the first person to bivovac on the summit of Mount Everest and doing so for 21 hours without any Artificial Oxygen. He died on Mount Everest in 2001

1999: On the 25th May Cathy O'Dowd stood on the summit of Mount Everest for the second time, the only woman to do so by different routes, the South Col in 1996 and now by the North Col

2000: A record of 145 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest in this year

2000: Polly Murray became the first Scotswoman to stand on the summit of Mount Everest on the 16th May

2000: On the 21st May Babu Chhiri made the fastest ascent on the South Side in 16 hours and 56 minutes from Base Camp to Summit 

2000: On the 24th May Apa Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest for his 11th time

2000: On the 7th October Davo Karnicar was the first person to make a descent from the summit of Mount Everest on Skis

2001: Marco Siffredi made his descent from the summit of Mount Everest on a Snowboard on the 23rd May

2001: Temba Tsheri Sherpa became the youngest person to stand on the summit of Mount Everest at the age of 15

2001: The 23rd May saw 89 people stand on the summit of Mount Everest (not all at once)

2001: Erik Weihenmayer was the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 25th May

2002: At the age of 70 Yuichiro Miura became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 22nd May

2003: On the 25th May Peter Hillary son of Edmund phones his dad via satellite phone from the summit of Mount Everest

2003: On the 26th May Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa went from Base Camp to the summit of Mount Everest in a record time of 10 hours 56 minutes

2003: Apa Sherpa reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 26th May for his 13th time

2003:May 29th marks the 50th Anniversary of the First ascent of Mount Everest made by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

2004: On the 16th May Vicky Jack became the oldest British woman to climb Mount Everest at the age of 51

2004: Appa Sherpa made his 14th ascent of Mount Everest on the 17th May

2004: On the 18th May Clare O'Leary became the first Irish woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

2004: 21st May saw Pemba Dorje Sherpa make a speed record of 8 hours and 10 minutes from base camp to summit of Mount Everest

2005: A new height for Mount Everest was taken from GPS to be 29.017ft and 2 inches

2005: On the 30th May Moni Mulepati and Pem Dorjee became the first to exchange wedding vows on the summit of Mount Everest

2005: Appa Sherpa made his 15th ascent of Mount Everest on the 31st May

2005: Explorer Ranulph Fiennes reached a height of 27,560ft on Mount Everest before pulling out on his summit attempt on the 3rd June

2005: Jake Meyer at the age of 21 became the youngest Briton to summit Mount Everest on the 4th June

2006: Mark Ingliz from New Zealand became the first 'double amputie' (has artificial legs) to reach Everest's summit on the 15th May

2006: On the 17th May Kenton Cool became the first Briton to have reached the summit of Everest 3 times

2006: Rob Gauntlet and James Hooper became the youngest Britons aged 19 to reach Everest's summit on the 17th May

2006: Pauline Sanderson became the first person to complete the longest climb on earth, from the Dead Sea and reaching the summit of Everest on the 18th May

2006: On the 19th May Apa Sherpa reached the summit of Everest for his 16th time

2006: On the 22nd May Will Cross from Pittsburgh became the first person with 'Type 1 Diabetes' to reach the summit of Everest

2006: Ming Kipa Sherpais the youngest girl at the age of 15 to reach the summit of Everest on the 24th May

2006: On the 24th May Lakpa Tharke Sherpa stood on the summit of Everest for 3 minutes totally naked

2006: On the 25th May Austrian climber Christian Stangl made a speed ascent from the North side of Everest taking 16 hours 42 minutes from Base Camp to summit. He then took just 6 hours from the summit back to Base Camp on the same day

2007: Chhiring Dorje Sherpa climbed to the summit 3 times within 2 weeks. Summit dates were 2nd May, 15th May and 16th May

2007: On the 15th May David Tait became the first person to Traverse Mount Everest, starting from Tibet North side and ending in Nepal South side

2007: Apa Sherpa broke his own record on the 16th May by reaching the summit of Mount Everest for his Seventeenth time

2007: British climbers Kenton Cool and Robert Casserly reached the summit of Everest twice in the same week, on the 17th and 24th May

2007: On the 22nd May Katsusuke Yanagisawa from Japan became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old

2007: On the 24th May Tori James became the first Welsh woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest

2007: Dutchman Wim Hoff reached an altitude of 24,278ft on Mount Everest wearing a pair of shorts on the ? May

2008: Sir Edmund Hillary sadly passed away aged 88 on the 11th January

2008: On the 22nd January New Zealand hold a State Funeral for Sir Edmund Hillary