Mount Everest - Features
Mount Everest is 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) above sea level and is the tallest and most known mountain in the world based on measurement to sea level. It’s located in the Himalayas in Asia, the tallest mountain range in the world and spreads across six countries: Nepal, Pakistan, China, Afghanistan, India and Butan. The coordinates of Mount Everest are: 27.9881° N, 86.9253° E.
Mount Everest is found in the Mahalangur part of the Himalayas, Everest’ summit straddles the border separating Nepal and China. Everest is made up of multiple layers of rock folded back on themselves and is camouflaged by snow and ice. The mountain is formed like a pyramid with the sides. The three extensive flat planes that make up the sides are known as faces.
How Mount Everest was formed- Emerald
"The collision of India into Asia 50 million years ago caused the Eurasian Plate to crumple up and override the Indian Plate. After the collision, the slow continuous convergence of the two plates over millions of years pushed up the Himalayas and the Tibetan Plateau to their present heights.”
Over millions of years, two convergent plate boundaries pushed up the himalayas and the tibetan plateau to their present heights, and also creating mount everest to what it is now.
Convergent plates are two actively deforming plates that are moving towards each other.
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The Indigenous People of Mount Everest- AJ
The Sherpa people are the Indigenous people who inhabit Mount Everest and it’s surroundings. It is estimated that there are over 45,000 Sherpa people. There religions are mostly Tibetan Bhuddism and other religions include Hinduism, Bön, and Christianity. The Sherpa people have a dialect known as Sherpa or Sherpali and use the Tibetan script for writing. A known folklore of the Sherpa people is the Yeti and they plan to eliminate the well known Abominable Snowman. Not many Sherpa people go to normal school and jobs usually have something to do with animals. They dance, drink Tibetan beer, tea, eat vegetables and various meats. They all wear long pants garments, robes and wear woolen boots to keep warm.
What you need for Mount Everest- AJ
Animals that live in Mount Everest- Samantha
Must deers, Pikas, Hare, Rabbits, Snow leopards, Himalayan tahrs, Red pandas, Himalayan Goral and Himalayan Black bears have been inhabited from Mt. Everest and other snow mountains. Mt. Everest animals have inhabited or its amount of population has dropped from natural disasters, such as avalanches, hunting and from their predators. Mt. everest animals have warm coating for them to survive themselves. The animals survive with their surroundings, nature. The animals in Mt. Everest are endangered from the snow, rocks and large landscapes that can be moved by natural movement. Strong wind can blow snow or shape ice to hurt the animals.
What you need for Mount Everest- AJ
Mount Everest is now used for its resources such as water from its lakes and climbing for tourists and thrill seekers. The fee is around $30,000-$65,000 US dollars to climb the mountain and to stay at the base camps and all the equipment needed but if your going on a private tour with a personal chef, social media access then you would need to pay as much as $100,000. You would need strong and warm footwear preferably woolen boots, clothing, headgear, handgear, accessories, climbing equipment such as a harness, camping gear and medical and personal items such as a first aid kid and toiletries.
Dangers of Mount Everest- Emerald
One of the hazards within Mount Everest is it’s avalanches. Avalanches often come from natural occurrences, when snow piles on top of each other and by gravity, it’s weight eventually has to come and fall down. Other instances is when an earthquake happens. An example is something that happened pretty recently: the 7.8 earthquake that hit Nepal, where Mount Everest is located. 8 million people were affected by the earthquake, with 5,000 people killed. the economy lost about $10bn, and according to the IBN the cost of rebuilding the whole of nepal would be $5bn. 22 people were confirmed dead at the base camp avalanche when the earthquake had happened.
Resources
http://www.livescience.com/23359-mount-everest.html
http://www.everyculture.com/wc/Mauritania-to-Nigeria/Sherpas.html
http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_top_story/magnitude-7-8-earthquake-in-nepal/
http://www.outsideonline.com/1929131/how-much-does-it-cost-climb-everest
