#OnThisDay, May 29, 1953, mountaineers Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the 29,035-foot summit of Mount Everest (depicted in Hillary, "Everest" s01e03, 2018)
29 May 1953 - Edmund Hillary, an explore and mountaineer from New Zealand, and Tenzing Norgay, the Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer, became the first people to stand on the summit of Mt. Everest, the world’s highest peak.
Unsere 9 #Solargeräte, welche wir vor 41 Tagen versendet haben kamen heute bei unserem Empfänger in #Nepal an. Zuerst hat die Sendung die #Deutsche#Post geöffnet und der Zoll in Nepal hat sich auch Zeit gelassen. Dort erfolgt jetzt noch der Einbau der #Batterien und danach können wir die restlichen 20 Geräte versenden. Dies war unser erster Versand zum Test! 👍 #solar#lightforlife#himalaya#Annapurna#everest
Mt. Everest is laden with waste left by climbers — Nepal's Department of Tourism estimates that there are nearly 140,000 tons. Now, some of that material is finding its way to Tharu craftswomen who combine discarded ropes with moonj, a traditionally harvested wild grass, to make boxes and mats. NPR's Tanka Dhakal explains more about how the program works, and how its organizers hope it will grow.
BBC: Mount Everest: Climbers will need to bring poo back to base camp (personal commentary: let's see that rule on your dead climbing buddies and those oxygen canisters, too). #everest#poo
Cette infographie répond très bien à la question suivante :
Quel est le point le plus élevé sur notre Terre ?
Effectivement, il y a trois sommets car cela dépend du point d'origine considéré dans la mesure :
Si l'on mesure par rapport au niveau de la mer, alors la réponse est le mont Everest (Népal 🇳🇵)
Si l'on mesure par rapport à la base de la montagne, alors c'est le mont Mauna Kea (États-Unis 🇺🇲)
Si l'on mesure par rapport au centre de la Terre,alors c'est le mont Chimborazo (Équateur 🇪🇨)
Pour bien comprendre la mesure par rapport au centre de la Terre, il faut se rappeler que celle-ci a un modèle ellipsoïde de sphère aplatie aux pôles. Ainsi, les distances entre sa surface et son centre varient de 6 352 km (fond de l'océan Arctique) à 6 384 km (sommet du Chimborazo). Le rayon équatorial est de 6 378 km, alors que le rayon polaire est de 6 356 km.
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This is likely the closest I will ever get to Mount Everest. I took this last year, from the window of a plane. I was given the option to fly to Everest base camp in a helicopter but this was a quarter of the price and felt a lot safer.
Mt. #Everest, Camp IV on April 4, 2023 (Airbus Pleiades imaging). The colors you see in the center of the frame are tents, air canisters, trash, bags of human waste. Kind of a sty (if you ask me). #satellite#imaging
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Daybreak at Gokyo Ri, a trekking peak in the Khumbu Region. Three clouds mark three eight-thousanders: #Everest on the left, Lhotse in the middle and Makalu on the right-hand-side in greater distance. The Himalayas. #Sagarmatha National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, Everest Region. Solukhumbu, Nepal.