M OUNT E VEREST How can people both experience & protect the world’s special places? Geographic setting: 29, 035 ft. straddles Nepal & Tibet 2,000 reached.

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M OUNT E VEREST How can people both experience & protect the world’s special places? Geographic setting: 29, 035 ft. straddles Nepal & Tibet 2,000 reached top 180 died

S IR E DMUND H ILLARY First to ascend—May 29, 1953 w/ Sherpa guide, Tenzing Norgay had to acclimate risked exposure

PROBLEMS trash & overcrowding now protected by UNESCO Sagarmatha National Park UNESCO Heritage site

T RASH ON E VEREST

F ROM L UKLA TO B ASE C AMP Stopping at base camps allows climbers to acclimatize. tourism helps economy very expensive -- $60,000/person Sherpas are excellent guides. has environmental impact

F ROM C AMP I TO C AMP IV After Camp I: Valley of Silence After Camp II: Lhotse Face

C AMP IV TO S UMMIT Death Zone Above 26,000 ft. Extremely dangerous loose snow avalanches wrong footing thin air exhaustion no possibility of rescue Why go???