Mt Everest is located in Northeastern Nepal and stands 29028 feet above sea level. Everest was first attempted in 1921 by a group led by George Mallory but it was not intill 1953 when New Zealander Sir Edmand Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay made the summit via the south col route. It was not untill 1963 that the first American expedition made it when Seattle native Jim Whittaker summited with Sherpa Nawang Gombu. A pair of other climbers on that expedition also where the first climbers to climb the West ridge. To date some 4000 people have tried to climb Everest, around 660 have succeeded and 142 have died (based on 1996 features).
"The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy." —George Mallory, 1924
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