Everest Region

Mount Everest, or Chomolungma in Tibetan, is the world’s highest mountain, its peak rising 8848 m above sea level. Everest straddles the border between Tibet and Nepal, and its massif includes the neighboring peaks Lhotse (8516 m), Nuptse (7855 m) and Changtse (7580 m). It was given the name Everest by the Royal Geographical Society in 1865 upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India, in honor of his predecessor, Sir George Everest. In the 1920’s and 30’s, there were numerous attempts to reach the summit of Mount Everest from the north face of the mountain, including the ill-fated efforts of George Mallory and Andrew Irvine in 1924. After China restricted access to the region, however, and Nepal opened its borders to outsiders in 1950, efforts resumed using the more accessible southerly approach. In 1952, a Swiss expedition established the route through the Khumbu Icefall, and in the spring of the following year a large and well-equipped British expedition set up their camp at the mountain’s base. On May 29, New Zealander Edmund Hillary and a Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reached the summit. Finally, Everest had been conquered.

It is to induce you to take a leap out of everyday existence into those regions where life is on a magnificent scale, where there are dangers, where the struggle is not for goals that can be defined by figures and captions