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Flashcards by Alain Garcia, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Alain Garcia
about 8 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| English Class "Structure" | - Alain Garcia - Ricardo ... |
| 1865 | Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society. |
| 1920 | First attempt to climb Mount Everest made by a British team which included George Mallory. |
| 1922 | The first recorded deaths on Everest occur when a group of people, part of a British expedition, die in an avalanche. |
| 1953 | First summit of Everest accomplished by Edmund Hillary, from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, from India. |
| 1975 | Junko Tabei (Japan) becomes the first woman to summit Everest. |
| 2003 | A Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura of 70 years becomes the oldest person ever to reach Everest's summit. On 2013 he did one more time. |
| 2007 | The first cellphone call was made from the top of Everest by Rod Baber, a British climber. - "It's cold, it's fantastic, and the Himalayas are everywhere" |
| 2012 | Everest had been climbed 5,656 times with 223 deaths. |
| 2015 | 334 climbing permits were extended for free. This was by the Nepal's earthquake. (10,000USD for foreigners). |
| 2016 | As of 2016, there are well over 200 corpses still on the mountain, with some of them even serving as landmarks. |
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