The Ascent of Everest

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Clara Sumarwati was the first Indonesian to reach the summit on September 26, 1996, according to the record of Everest Summiteers Association. May 23 – Bachendri Pal via the standard southeast ridge route, becoming the first Indian woman to do so.

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On May 21, Faruq Saad al-Zuman reached the summit of the Everest and became the first Saudi Arabian to climb Everest. The Himalayan black bear can be found up to about 4,300 metres (14,000ft) and the red panda is also present in the region. The following year, Waugh sent a survey official back to Terai to make closer observations of peak "b", but clouds thwarted his attempts. On May 23, Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet reached the summit of Everest followed by Dölf Reist and Hansruedi von Gunten on May 24.An official announcement that PeakXV was the highest was delayed for several years as the calculations were repeatedly verified. The North Col was reached from the west for the first time and the team went on to over 27,200ft (8,290m) without supplemental oxygen before being forced down by bad weather and sickness. After Wilfrid Noyce and Annullu had forced a passage to the South Col, two climbing pairs previously selected by Hunt attempted to reach the summit. The oldest climber to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both sides (Nepal and Tibet) of the mountain is 60-year-old Julio Bird, a Puerto Rican cardiologist who reached the summit of Mount Everest from the north side on 17 May 2010.

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Times reporter James Morris sent a coded message by runner to Namche Bazaar, where a wireless transmitter was used to relay the message to London. By comparison, reasonable base elevations for Everest range from 4,200m (13,800ft) on the south side to 5,200m (17,100ft) on the Tibetan Plateau, yielding a height above base in the range of 3,650 to 4,650m (11,980 to 15,260ft). The team fixed a ladder at the Second Step, the major obstacle on the North Ridge route, which continued to be in use until 2008. April 2015 Nepal earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest, killing at least 18 people at South Base Camp; [134] [135] an Indian Army mountaineering team reportedly recovered 18 bodies. Production was halted as Breashears and his team assisted the survivors of the May 10 disaster, but the team eventually reached the top on May 23 and filmed the first large format footage of the summit.

The French had permission for a 1954 Everest expedition if the 1953 British expedition did not reach the summit, and the Swiss had permission for a 1955 or 1956 Everest expedition. During the same season, climber and filmmaker David Breashears and his team filmed the IMAX feature Everest on the mountain (some climbing scenes were later recreated for the film in British Columbia, Canada). A subsequent attempt by Eric Shipton and Frank Smythe followed the same route but Smythe, who pressed on alone when Shipton turned back because of illness, got no higher. A band of cliffs on the southwest face, known as the Rock Band, had defeated five previous expeditions between 1969 and 1973.

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Pemba was later arrested and jailed for his alleged involvement in a swindling scandal unrelated to Mt.Naturalized American and British born Tom Whittaker, whose right foot had been amputated, became the first disabled person to successfully reach the summit.