Where is Everest and why is it extreme?

Mount Everest, located in Nepal and Tibet, is the highest mountain

on Earth
Here are 10 interesting facts about this mountain that will Blow
Your Mind

 Everest is 29,035 feet or 8848 meters high.

 The summit is the border of Nepal to the south and
China or Tibet on the north.
 It is over 60 million years old.
 Everest was formed by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and
against the Asian plate.
 Everest grows by about a quarter of an inch (0.25") every year.
 The man who Everest is named after never actually saw the peak
 Gale force winds can reach up to 200 miles per hour
 10% of those who reach the summit die
 In 2011, the first ever tweet was sent from the summit

Did u know The peak of Everest is so high that it reaches the lower limit of the jet stream,
and it can have winds of more than 100 miles (160 km) The risk of frostbite to climbers on
Everest is extremely high. Usually a number of deaths on Everest have been dew to altitude
sickness because when humans struggle to adapt to the low oxygen levels at high altitudes.
This makes the climb extremely extreme.

By Max Hatton