Though it was named Mt Everest
by the Survey of India in 1856
after Sir George Everest, retired
Surveyor-General of India, the
peak had been known by other
Names long before.
The Nepalis
call it Sagarmatha and the Sherpas
call it Chomolungma.
The Chinese now call it Qomolangma
feng.
Sagarmatha
literally means 'head of the
sky' the name was invented in
1956 by Babu ram Acharya, a
nepali historian.
The list of attempts and successes
on Everest is one of the classics
of Mountaineering history.
By 1989 there
had been 274 ascents of Everest,
including several by people
who climbed it two or more times.
At the end of 2003 the record
stood at 449 expeditions, 900
different people had reached
the summit (counting the more
the 30 people climbing more
then 5 time 40 people climbing
more then 2 time is total 1000
ascents), and 160 climbers had
been illed. The following section
lists all the Everest expeditions
until 1982. By 1983 both china
and Nepal allowed several expeditions
on the mountain at the same
time,
Causing traffic jams, queues
for the use overrates and fixed
ropes, confusion, squabbles,
crowded base camps and the inevitable
trashing of the mountain.
