Back in early 1852, thanks to the calculations of the topographer-mathematician Radhanat Sikdar from India, it became known that the highest peak on the planet is the mountain, known to everyone as Everest. Above sea level, it reaches 8848 meters. This is the name given to the Himalayan "roof of the world" in the 19th century by Andrew Work in honor of George Everest, the chief surveyor of the topographic service of British India. Do you know what other names this majestic peak bears?
It has three names. Common English naming is Everest, Tibetan Chomolungma (translated as “mother, goddess of all mountains”), Nepalese - Sagarmatha (translated from Nepali means “heavenly forehead”). Sixty years have passed since the conquest of the highest mountain peak Everest by the climbers Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary in May 1953, but new facts and mini discoveries still accompany it. On average, since 2004, about 7000 mountain tourists climb the mountain every year, while the commercial flow of tourists is only increasing. Super-high-speed ascent has been recorded since this year. Sherpa Pemba Dorji set such a record, climbing in just eight hours from base camp to the summit of Mount Everest.
It is unbelievable, but true - at a great height with a rarefied atmosphere of the mountain surface, on which the temperature regime is practically never above zero, but it drops to minus up to sixty degrees Celsius, live spiders live. In the crevices of the mountains, where the height reaches 6,700 meters, the Himalayan jumping spiders (Omnisuperstes euophrys) are hiding, which easily survive in such extremely difficult conditions. Spiders feed on insects, accidentally brought up by the wind. At a height just below the usual for spiders, previously unknown new species of grasshoppers were found. There are also rare species of birds.
According to the estimates of ecologists, more than fifty tons of garbage left by tourists have accumulated in the foothills of Everest. A special group of climbers "Eco Everest", which has already collected thirteen tons of waste here during its expedition, is fighting pollution. For ascending climbers, there is a requirement that they must bring eight kilograms of garbage with them when returning from the summit, otherwise they may even be deprived of a deposit of $ 4,000.
The rocks of Everest are very ancient. In the upper layers, under the snow cover after avalanches, the remains of sea creatures and parts of ancient shells are found. Scientists have established that this mountain range was once part of the ocean. For the first time such fossils were discovered in 1924 by Noel Odel. Due to the shift of continental tectonic plates fifty million years ago, the ocean floor began to rise rapidly, reaching incredible heights. Moreover, the process of mountain growth has not stopped to this day. Regular studies of 1994 revealed that Everest rises by four millimeters every year.
The mountain peak is very insidious and cruel to its conquerors. In clear weather, the temperature at the Himalayan heights on average keeps at minus twenty degrees, and in moments of sudden snow storms with hurricane gusts of wind, degrees Celsius drops sharply down to forty and below. Climbers caught in such a storm rarely return without frostbite. As a result, few of them manage to avoid further limb amputation. But those who find themselves cut off by the storm plume on the mountain slopes above the rest of the tourist camps have to pay the highest price - their lives. Physically, no one can come to their aid in the snowy darkness. The cruel unspoken rule of the highlands says - you cannot go further, die. At great heights, the line between moral principles and survival is blurred, so it happensthat climbers continue their ascent to the summit, passing by and not stopping near those who are dying but still alive.
Today, more than three hundred frozen corpses of unburied climbers and rock climbers are silently resting on the slopes of Mount Everest. It is very difficult to remove them from the mountain, and it even came to the point that the passed stages of the ascent are marked along them. For example, climbers have an altitude mark called "green boots", named for the outfit of a frozen Indian climber. High-altitude tourists often say that during the ascent they felt the presence of ghostly shadows on the slopes of the snow-covered Everest. They dreamed of some strange silhouettes, and they heard, chilling the human soul, eerie whispering with a request for help from otherworldly beings. Usually they encounter eerie black human shadows at five and eight thousand meters in height.
From a medical point of view, such facts can be explained. Whichever route the climbers choose, they will definitely have to go through the death zone of the enchanting alluring and attracting Everest. This dangerous zone begins at an altitude of more than 7,600 meters, when the rarefaction of the air reaches the extreme limits of survival and the oxygen level is only one third of the values of the sea level, the human consciousness becomes very foggy, the thought processes slow down. Such an environment alien to living beings helps to slow down the thought processes and inhibition of making any vital decisions in extreme conditions. Hence the strange visions, and the blurry obscure ghostly outlines.
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However, there is eyewitness testimony, among tourists, about inexplicable sudden disappearances of real physical objects at high mountain heights. Without the otherworldly intervention of ghosts, such phenomena cannot be scientifically explained. After all, there is not a single living being around there. Why do the spirits of the dead climbers need someone else's clothes and things from climbing equipment? This question remains a mystery to many of the participants in the expeditions to Everest.
The counting of human losses and terrible disappearances began already with the first expedition, which started back in the 20s of the last century with the aim of conquering the inaccessible peak of Mahalangur-Himal, located on the Himalayan mountain range. The members of this group disappeared without a trace under very strange circumstances. And to this day, Everest is considered the keeper of many mysteries and secrets.
