Places of Interest
Mount Everest-The roof of the world
The highest summit on earth - Mount Everest, Sagarmatha or Chomolungma - is 8848 m (29,028 ft) high. The route to the foot of Mount Everest became popular following the, now legendary, first ascent of the peak in 1953 by Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and the Tensing Norgay Sherpa of Nepal. In 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to reach the mountain summit without artificial oxygen.
Today approximately 12,000 trekkers a year set out to climb Mount Everest, over half of them belong to an organised trekking group. The complete walk to the foot of Everest takes three weeks but can be made shorter by flying to Lukla.