World Famous Extremes

Mount Everest is so famous that you've probably heard of it.   It is known the world over as the highest place on earth, becoming famous in the early 1950s when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzig Norgay first climbed to its awesome summit.   Hillary surveyed Everest and determined that it was 29,000 ft/8840m high - a figure amazingly close to the current reading of 29,035 ft/8850m, which was confirmed using radar and global positioning satellite (GPS) technology.

Trying to imagine what it feels like to climb up a mountain with very little oxygen in your body, and the constant cold, is almost impossible; to make it easier we'll be compiling videos about Mount Everest and Extreme Climbing in this topic area.  As an introduction, start with the exceptional documentary - EVEREST.  EVEREST will take you across creaking icefalls and gaping chasms, up dangerous, towering cliffs and into the death zone of oxygen-thin altitude as shared through the eyes of a Himalayan Sherpa, Climbers from around the world, and support staff.

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