Mount Everest is the biggest mountains in the world. Everest was formed about 60 million years ago. It's about 8,848m high from the sea-level. It is located between the border between Nepal and China. It was named by the Royal Geographical Society's former chief Sir George Everest. The highest mountain in the world attracts many well-experienced mountaineers as well as novice climbers who are willing to pay substantial sums to professional mountain guides to complete a successful climb. The first human who reached at the summit of Mount Everest is Edmund Hillary (born 1919), the New Zealand mountaineer. By the end of the 2008 climbing season, there had been 4,102 ascents to the summit by about 2,700 individuals. Climbers are a significant source of tourist revenue for Nepal, whose government also requires all prospective climbers to obtain an expensive permit, costing up to US $ 25,000 per person. By the end of 2009 Everest had claimed 216 lives, including eight who perished during a 1996 storm high on the mountain. Conditions are so difficult in the death zone (altitudes higher than 8,000 m/26,246 ft) that most corpses have been left where they fell. Some of them are visible from standard climbing routes.
The youngest person to climb Mount Everest was 13-year-old Jordan Romero in May 2010.Apa Sherpa holds the record for reaching the summit more times than any other person (20 times as of May 2010[update]). Finally, we can say that Mount Everest is the most amazing and mysterious mountain of the world.
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