Everest. Top of the World

Everest, the highest mountain on our planet, rises among the eternal snows of the Himalayas to a height of 8848 meters. Everest is located on the border of Nepal and China. The peak of Everest is crowned by the Main Himalayan Range.
Translated from Tibetan “Chomolungma” means “Divine (jamma) Mother (ma) of Life (lung - wind or life force)”, the mountain is named in honor of the Bon goddess Sherab Chamma. The Nepalese name of Chomolungma - "Sagarmatha" - means "Mother of the Gods". The English name "Everest" was proposed in 1856 by Andrew Waugh, the successor of the head of the geodetic service of British India, Sir George Everest,
Everest has the shape of a pyramid, only its southern slope is steeper. Glaciers flow down from the massif in all directions, ending at an altitude of about 5 thousand m. On the southern slope and edges of the pyramid, snow and ice are not retained, as a result of which they are exposed.
For several decades, people tried to conquer Everest - and only on May 29, 1953, members of the British Himalayan expedition, Edmund Hillary and Norgay Tenzing, managed to climb the highest point on Earth. Since then, Everest has been climbed repeatedly, but not every expedition has been successful - there have been casualties, and there have been retreats. This is due to oxygen starvation, very low air temperatures and a heavy frosty wind.
The first woman to climb Everest was the Japanese climber Junko Tabei.
The ascent of Soviet climbers to the highest peak of the Earth took place in May 1982. In total, from May 4 to May 9, 11 Soviet athletes climbed to the top of the world, one of them without an oxygen mask at all, and two more at night (this was the first night ascent of Everest). Soviet climbers walked to the summit along a very difficult route that had never been covered by anyone along the southwestern wall.
For 50 years, Everest has been visited by more than 2,500 climbers around the world.
At the top of Everest, the wind blows at a speed of 200 kilometers per hour, and the temperature at night drops to minus sixty. More than two hundred people have died on the slopes in fifty years.
Everest knows many tragedies, but it keeps its secrets tightly ...