View Mount Everest Mountaineering History Pictures. The discovery of mount everest by george everest and his team soon caught the imagination of mountaineers worldwide. Mount everest—known in nepali as sagarmatha and tibetan as chomolungma—straddles the despite the risks, everest draws hundreds of mountaineers from around the world to its slopes is there anything left to explore on everest?
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New zealand mountain climber and antarctic explorer who, with the nepali sherpa mountaineer tenzing norgay, was the first to reach the summit of mount everest. The first disabled climber to reach the summit of the mount everest is tom whittaker who is a mountaineer born in 1948 in york. Mount everest—also known as sagarmatha or chomolungma—is the highest mountain on earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. Only four people have ever glided off the top of everest, and the story of sunuwar and sherpa is just as.