Mount EverestMount Everest is 8848m high and is in the Himalayas mountain range.

WeatherThe peak never reaches above freezing all year round. The wettest month of the year is August and the driest months are November and December. The coldest temperature recorded is -77.5 degrees Celsius which was recorded in 1991.

AgeMount Everest is nearly 60 million years old! It grows 0.25 inches a year.

HistoryIn 1953 Sir Edmund Hilary and his Sherpa Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb Mount Everest. Sir Edmund Hilary was born on 20 July 1919 and died on 11 January 2008 aged 88.

Sir Edmund Hilary

The Expedition-1953

Edmund Hilary and Tenzin Norgay were part of the ninth British expedition to attempt to climb Mount Everest. They were the first confirmed to have succeeded when Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit on 29 May 1953. Led by Colonel John Hunt it was organised and financed by the Joint Himalayan committee. It took several months to climb the mountain and they experienced extreme conditions. It took another month for the news to go global. They became very famous when they arrived home.