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    Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world located on the border of Nepal and China. It was named after Sir George Everest, a British surveyor general of India, who made maps of India between 1823-1843. Mount Everest was formed around 55 million years ago due to the collision of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates which caused the land to be pushed up and form the Himalayan mountain range. Mount Everest has two climbing routes and getting to the summit can take over two months due to the low oxygen levels at high altitudes. The first recorded summit was achieved by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay in 1953.

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    Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world located on the border of Nepal and China. It was named after Sir George Everest, a British surveyor general of India, who made maps of India between 1823-1843. Mount Everest was formed around 55 million years ago due to the collision of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates which caused the land to be pushed up and form the Himalayan mountain range. Mount Everest has two climbing routes and getting to the summit can take over two months due to the low oxygen levels at high altitudes. The first recorded summit was achieved by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay in 1953.

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    Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world located on the border of Nepal and China. It was named after Sir George Everest, a British surveyor general of India, who made maps of India between 1823-1843. Mount Everest was formed around 55 million years ago due to the collision of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates which caused the land to be pushed up and form the Himalayan mountain range. Mount Everest has two climbing routes and getting to the summit can take over two months due to the low oxygen levels at high altitudes. The first recorded summit was achieved by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay in 1953.

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    Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world located on the border of Nepal and China. It was named after Sir George Everest, a British surveyor general of India, who made maps of India between 1823-1843. Mount Everest was formed around 55 million years ago due to the collision of the Indian and Asian tectonic plates which caused the land to be pushed up and form the Himalayan mountain range. Mount Everest has two climbing routes and getting to the summit can take over two months due to the low oxygen levels at high altitudes. The first recorded summit was achieved by Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay in 1953.

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    CLIL360 2014 All rights reserved. May be photocopied for use in the classroom.

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    unless stated.
    Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Its
    summit is 8,848 metres above sea level. Mount Everest is
    in the Himalayas, on the border between China and
    Nepal.
    How did Mount Everest get its
    name?
    The mountain had many local names. For example, the
    Nepalese people called it Sagarmatha and the Tibetans
    called it Chomolangma. But in 1865 the British decided
    to call it Mount Everest after Sir George Everest.
    Between 1823 and 1843, Sir George Everest had made
    maps of India.
    How was Mount Everest formed?
    About 55 million years ago, the Indian and Asian plates
    started to collide. This collision pushed up the land,
    forming the Himalayas. The Indian Plate is still moving
    north so the Himalayas are getting higher. Mount
    Everest gets one metre higher every 250 years.
    Mountaineering
    Mount Everest has two climbing routes, the southeast
    route from Nepal and the northeast route from Tibet.
    The southeast route is easier and it was used by
    Edmund Hillary and Tensing Norgay in 1953. It can take 2 months to climb the mountain because
    mountaineers must spend a long time at the bottom of the mountain to get used to the high altitude. May is
    the best time of the year to climb the mountain because the winds are not very strong.

    Mountaineers first tried to climb Mount Everest in the 1920s. In 1924, the British mountaineers, George
    Mallory and Andrew Irvine, died near the summit of Mount Everest. Mallorys body was found in 1999.
    Before 1950, most mountaineers tried to reach the summit from Tibet, but in 1950 the Chinese closed the
    border. So mountaineers started to use the southeast route. The first mountaineers to reach the summit
    were Edmund Hillary and Tensing Torgay on 29th May 1953. Since then, thousands of mountaineers have
    tried to climb to the top.

    By June 2011, 5652 people had reached the summit of Mount Everest, most of them since 2000. The
    youngest person to reach the summit was Jordan Romero, a 13 year old American, in 2010. The oldest
    person was Min Bahadur Sherchan, a 76 year old from Nepal, in 2008. However, over 200 people have
    died trying to climb Mount Everest: eight people died during a storm on the mountain on 11th May 1996 and
    on 18th May 2014, sixteen Nepalese sherpas died in an avalanche. Most of these bodies have been left on
    the mountain because it is too difficult to bring them down. Most of the deaths happen because of the
    weather, the wind and the high altitude. The altitude above 8000 metres is called the Death Zone, because
    of the lack of oxygen, strong winds, low temperatures and ice.
    Plants and Animals
    The high altitude and lack of oxygen cannot support plants or animals. No plants live above 5750 metres.
    However, a tiny spider has been found at an altitude of 6,700 metres, making it perhaps the highest living
    animal in the world. People think it eats insects blown up the mountain by the wind.

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