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Mt Everest Facts

• Mt Everest is the world's tallest mountain at 8848 metres (see also top 10 list, 7 natural wonders)

• The first people to officially climb the mountain were Sir Edmund Hillary and the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, in 1953

• In 2006, Geri Winkler, from Vienna Austria, became the first diabetic to climb Everest. He started his journey from 400 metres below sea-level at the Dead Sea.

• The youngest person the climb the mountain is Ming Kipa Sherpa who scaled the peak at 15 years and 9 months.

• Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the top of Everest, achieving this feat in 1975.

• The first double amputee to climb Everest was Mark Inglis from New Zealand, in 2006

• The mountain is 60 million years old

• Water boils at 70 degree at the top
  

See also

• first 10 climbers to ascend Mt Everest
  

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