The Big Evertest

At 8,848 metres, it is the biggest Challenger a climber can ever face. It has taken the lives of 175 people. It is “the big E”. This is a brief history of a mountain and human obsession with trying to climb it.

George Everest worked for the British Government in India from 1830 to 1843. He was the first surveyor of India, so in 1865 his successor suggested using his name for the mountain peak and this is how we got the name Mount Everest.

In 1992 English climber George Mallory managed to climb to 8,000 metres. Two years later, Andrew Irvine and Mallory disappeared while they were walking near the top on 8 June. Seventy-five years later climbers found Mallory’s body when they were going up Everest.
His goggles and penknife were with his body. They never found his camera and without it nobody knows if he definitely reached the summit.

I leave you here some images in order that you see them calmly.