Previously on amazing world wonders here on FTD facts
We learned about satellites newts smart bullets that can actually turn and many other great amazing technological
Achievements from mankind today. However, we are giving technology a break and looking at a natural
amazing world wonder a mountain that is so big and has had so many people climate that it is theoretically a
frozen graveyard
This is Mount Everest
Mount Everest is huge is the biggest mountain on the planet
and as a matter of fact
It is still growing today and it's gonna continue
Growing for a long long time and I'm gonna explain a little bit about that. But before I do,
Welcome to amazing world wonders. My name is Dave Walpole and I hope you guys are just having a fantastic day
now before I get into this video
I always ask you guys in the pole up above and that is do you guys think that Everest?
Should be an amazing world wonder it's something that wasn't made by man
It's something that has been made by accident by Nature now Mount Everest is big. It has an elevation of
8843 meters or specifically
29,029 feet it is classified as one of the Seven Summits an ultra peak and a
8,000 er meaning that it is one of the 14 summits that are above 8,000 meters
Located in the maha languor Hamal sub range of the himalayas right dead smack between Nepal and China
Quite literally if you were to climb that mountain and you were to step on one side of the peak and then on the other
Side you would theoretically be in two different countries as a matter of fact because of this it's created so many
international disputes of how tall
this mountain actually is
Because Nepal measured it one way and then China also measured it one way said it was this tall without the snow
Currently though. There's not just only two countries
but there is only
Two known routes to get up to the top of the mountain the most common of this is the south ridge where you come from
Nepal that's why actually a lot of them American films have their base camp or beginning the movie always in Nepal
Simply because a lot of people come from that angle
However, there is also an angle which you can come from China, which is known as the north side now
The thing is we really don't know when Everest was first seen or first discovered by man now
Yes
We do have documentation
Of when the Western world had discovered it but we don't have any indication or any knowledge of human beings being near that mountain
before this in the modern documented world
It was discovered in 1847 by British explorer Andrew walk back then they named the mountain peak XV
but eventually renamed it after Colonel Sir George Everest officially in
1865 one thing really interesting note is the English might have actually been there before to document this mountain
however, unfortunately
There was some political issues with Nepal at the time and therefore
British explorers could not enter the country after its official naming the mountain remained pretty quiet for a while until approximately
1921 this was when the first photo was taken of the mountain by George Mallory who was a part of the first three
expeditions to reach the summit after the failure of the first one he returned yet again in
1922 this time using oxygen tanks for the first time, but however
It was on his third attempt in
1924 that he and a newcomer Andrew Irving unfortunately died on the mountain
Crazy thing is is George. Mallory's body wasn't discovered until
1999 and still to this day Irving's body has not been recovered
a lot of people are still trying to figure out whether or not he actually
Made it to the top
as a matter of fact
There is a camera that was with him that is still yet to be discovered and although that attempt failed
It wasn't until Friday
May 29th of 1953 that New Zealand Explorer and climber Edmund Hillary and Indian Napoli's
Tenzing Norgay
Made it to the top of the summit taking the first photos
the
Expedition was led by Colonel John hunt a British Army officer and oddly enough the news broke out on the exact same day
Queen elizabeth ii coronation. What a good day to be English in today's calendar as of 2019
It's been said that over 300 people have died climbing this mountain and by the year of 2013
It was said that there had been at least six thousand eight hundred and seventy-one summits
Done by four thousand 42 different people and remember how I said earlier that the mountain is growing every single year
well, it's growing by five centimeters every
single
365 days
This is simply because the Indian continental plate is slamming into the Asian
continental plate
pushing the Himalayan mountains higher and higher so that is simply looking at some of the basic facts of
Everest and because of its sheer need for humanity to climb great structures against all odds like weather and oxygen
Mount Everest is indeed inducted as one of the world's greatest wonders and one of humanity's greatest
Accomplishments. Hope you guys like this episode. My name is Dave wall
And if you guys want to check out our other amazing world wonders videos
feel free to look at the playlists that I've got down there in the description box below and it's gonna be at the end of
the video as well
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Feel free to check out my own channel. I'll be down there
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But you guys have yourself a fantastic day, and I'll see you in the next one. Bye
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