Know Your Himal!

• Sagarmatha is also known as Chomolungma in Tibetan which means Mother of the earth.
  

• Itihas Siromani Baburam Acharya named it Sagarmatha meaning Goddess of the sky in 2028 BS.
  

• According to English accounts of the mid-19th century, the local name in Darjeeling for Mount Everest was Deodungha, or "Holy Mountain."
  

• The English name Mount Everest was named after Colonel Sir George Everest
  

• By the end of the 2006 climbing season there had been 3,050 ascents to the summit by 2,062 individuals, and at least 630 more ascents in 2007.
  

• There have been more than 200 deaths on the mountain, where conditions are so difficult that most corpses have been left where they fell; some are visible from standard climbing routes.
  

• Sagarmatha was once known as Peak 15.
  

• Everest was formed about 60 million years ago.
  

• Sagarmatha was first ascented on May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route
  

• Mt.
  Everest rises a few milimeters each year due to geological forces.
  

• Mt. Everest was first ascented by a Woman on May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAPAN, via the South-Col
  

eveningpolestar wrote:Sagarmatha from Space

eveningpolestar wrote:Whenever we introduce our country, it's something like ...Nepal is the country of Mt Everest...Nepal is a mountainous country...We all know Nepal is a himalayan country and it feels great to have a boarder of himalayas and not just himalayas ...himalayas with the eight out of ten highest mountains in the world...But it's bitter to acknowledge that a common Nepali knows next to none about the himalayas...so as a small start i am presenting this thread depicting the pictures of our himals from different locations plus little informations about them....

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