Geography Detail · Mountain
Mount Everest
珠穆朗玛峰 · 世界之巅
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, rising 8,848 metres above sea level on the border of Nepal and the Tibet region of China. Known in Tibetan as Chomolungma ('Goddess Mother of the World') and in Nepali as Sagarmatha, it is the crown of the Himalaya and the ultimate goal of mountaineers.
8,848 m
Height above sea level
1953
First ascent
8,000 m+
Above this = death zone
4 mm/yr
Still growing
Overview
Overview undefined
Location and the Himalaya
Everest is part of the Great Himalaya range, the highest mountain chain on Earth. It formed over roughly 50 million years as the Indian plate collided with Eurasia, folding the seafloor upward into the world's tallest peaks.
珠峰属于喜马拉雅山脉，由印度板块与欧亚板块碰撞挤压而成。
The First Ascent
On 29 May 1953, Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, became the first people to reach the summit. The route they took, the South Col, remains the most popular today.
1953年5月29日，希拉里与夏尔巴人丹增·诺盖首次登顶珠峰，走的是南坳路线。
The Death Zone
Above about 8,000 metres, oxygen is so thin that the body begins to die, a region climbers call the death zone. Summits there are made in a narrow weather window, and thousands of people have now stood on top — at the cost of more than 300 lives.
海拔8000米以上被称为死亡地带，氧气稀薄，人体机能开始衰竭。至今已有数千人登顶，也有300多人遇难。
Formation and Growth
The same collision that built Everest is still pushing it upward about four millimetres every year. The rock at the summit is ancient marine limestone, proof that the top of the world once lay beneath the sea.
珠峰仍在以每年约4毫米的速度升高，峰顶的岩石是远古海相石灰岩，说明世界之巅曾经在海底。
First ascent Edmund Hillary & Tenzing Norgay, 1953 首登 希拉里与丹增·诺盖
Local names Chomolungma (Tibetan) · Sagarmatha (Nepali) 藏语珠穆朗玛 · 尼泊尔语萨加玛塔
Highest base camp ~5,364 m (South Base Camp, Nepal) 南坡大本营约5364米
Records Fastest ascent ~26 h; oldest summiter 76 最快登顶约26小时 · 最年长登顶者76岁
Did You Know
Did You Know 趣味知识
Everest grows about 4 mm a year
because the Indian plate keeps pushing into Asia.
珠峰每年仍在长高约4毫米。
More than 11,000 summits
have been recorded since 1953.
自1953年以来已有超过1.1万次登顶。
The peak is marine limestone
that was once seafloor.
峰顶是曾是海底的海洋石灰岩。
Everest is not the furthest from Earth's centre
that honour goes to Ecuador's Chimborazo.
距地心最远并非珠峰，而是厄瓜多尔的钦博拉索山。
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