mount everest, n.Trivia

Mount Everest is littered with more than 200 corpses which climbers use as waypoints.

Sharks have survived four of the "big five" mass extinctions. They are older than Mount Everest, dinosaurs, and even trees

Climbing Mount Everest is costly --- paying for ‘Sherpas’, supplies and permits, totals between $60,000 and $120,000

Mount Everest is 8.9km (5.5 miles) high

Mount Everest is not the closest mountain to space. Rather, Mount Chimborazo (a mere 2/3 the height) is closer to space because it is closer to the equator

The womb is the oxygen equivalent of the top of Mt Everest which serves to keep the fetus asleep 95% of the time

Mount Everest's Rainbow Valley is so called because of the brightly-colored jackets on the frozen corpses that litter the ground there.

Mount Everest is a ticking poop time bomb:there are literally tons of human poop on Mount Everest, despite Sherpas bringing down 26,500 pounds of poop every season

Mount Everest actually shrank one inch in 2015, due to the earthquake in Nepal.

Mount Everest was measured to be exactly 29,000 feet, but it was printed as 29,002 so people didn't mistake the figure as a rounding estimate.

Mount Everest is only the tallest mountain above sea level. Mauna Kea is the tallest if you count its submerged base.

Mount Everest is growing taller by a few millimeters every year