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MOUNT EVEREST

MOUNT EVEREST. By Rehan 6k. HOW TALL IS MT . EVEREST. TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD 29,028 feet, or 5 and a half miles above sea level. This is equivalent to the size of almost 20 Empire State Buildings. LOCATION.

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MOUNT EVEREST

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  1. MOUNT EVEREST By Rehan 6k

  2. HOW TALL IS MT. EVEREST • TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD • 29,028 feet, or 5 and a half miles above sea level. This is equivalent to the size of almost 20 Empire State Buildings.

  3. LOCATION part of the Himalaya mountain range; straddles border of Nepal and Tibet.

  4. Countries visible from the summit Tibet, India, and Nepal.

  5. AGE approximately 60 million years old.

  6. Named AFTER Sir George Everest, a British surveyor-general of India.

  7. First to climb to summit: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953.

  8. Other names OF MT. EVEREST "Chomolungma" by Tibetans and Sherpas, which means "Mother Goddess of the Earth."

  9. NUMBER OF PEOPLE Number of people to attempt to climb Mt. Everest: approximately 4,000. Number of people to successfully climb Mt. Everest: 660. Number of people who have died trying to climb Mt. Everest: 142. 

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