The best time to visit Mount Everest (Mount Everest)

The best time to climb Mount Everest: The climate in the Everest region and its nearby peaks is complex and changeable, and it often changes unpredictably even within a day, let alone throughout the year. The ups and downs inside. Generally speaking, the rainy season lasts from early June to mid-September every year. The strong southeast monsoon causes frequent heavy rains, clouds and fog, and unpredictable ice and snow. In mid-November and mid-February of the following year, due to the strong northwest cold current, the temperature can reach -60°C, and the average temperature is between -40°C and -50°C. The maximum wind speed can reach 90m/second. From the beginning of March to the end of May every year, here is the spring when the wind season transitions to the rainy season, while from the beginning of September to the end of October is the autumn when the rainy season transitions to the wind season. During this period, better weather is possible, making it the best season for mountain climbing.

The Tibetan word "Qomolangma[1]jo-moglang-mari" means "Mother of the Earth". Jo-mo in Tibetan means goddess, and glang-ma means mother elephant (in Tibetan, glang-ma has two meanings: mountain willow and mother elephant). Mythology says that Mount Everest is the palace where the five-year-old goddess (tshe-ringmchedlnga) lives. However, there is another English saying that appears many times in middle school textbooks, namely Mount Qomolangma or Qomolangma Mount. This peak is generally called Mount Everest or Mount Everest in the West to commemorate George Everest, director of the Survey of India who was responsible for measuring the Himalayas when the British occupied Nepal. The most recent measurement of Mount Everest was in 1999 by the National Geographic Society using the Global Positioning System. They believed that the altitude of Mount Everest should be 8,850 meters. The altitude of Mount Everest, once recognized by countries around the world, was measured by the People's Republic of China and the National Mountaineering Team in 1975 and was 8848.13 meters. But the outside world also has many opinions such as 8848 meters, 8840 meters, 8850 meters, 8882 meters, etc. Recently, on May 22, 2005, the People's Republic of China and the National Mount Everest Height Measurement Mountaineering Team successfully climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and accurately measured the height of Mount Everest again. The new height of Mount Everest is 8844.43 meters. At the same time, the data of 8848.13 meters in 1975 was deactivated. Over time, the height of Mount Everest will continue to grow due to the movement of geographical plates. Interestingly, although Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world, its summit is not the farthest point from the center of the earth. This particular point belongs to the Chimborazo Mountains in South America. (The highest known peak in the solar system is Olympus Mons on Mars at an altitude of 27,000 meters). The tall and majestic image of Mount Everest has always had a huge impact locally and around the world.

The Olympic torch was delivered to the summit of Mount Everest for the first time

The Olympic torch reached the summit on May 8, 2008. The Chinese mountaineering team’s torch relay team, Mount Everest commandos, successfully carried the torch to the summit. Passing from the commando camp at 8,300 meters to the summit of Mount Everest, it created a miracle in the history of human Olympics. Mount Everest is in the shape of a giant pyramid, majestic and majestic, with extremely steep terrain and extremely complex environment. Snow line height: 5800-6200 meters on the north slope and 5500-6100 meters on the south slope. There are three steep walls (north wall, east wall and southwest wall) sandwiched between the northeast ridge, southeast ridge and west mountain ridge. There are 548 continental glaciers distributed between these ridges and cliffs, with a total area of ​​1457.07 square kilometers and an average thickness of Reaching 7260 meters. The supply of glaciers is mainly formed by the metamorphism of snow in the two major precipitation belts of the Indian Ocean monsoon belt. On the glacier, there are various, magnificent and rare serac forests, as well as ice cliffs tens of meters high, light and dark ice fissures with traps, and dangerous ice and avalanche areas. Mount Everest is not only majestic and majestic, but also majestic. Within 20 kilometers around it, there are many peaks and mountains. There are more than 40 peaks above 7,000 meters above sea level alone. The more famous ones are "Lhotse Peak" 3 kilometers to the south (8,463 meters above sea level, the fourth highest peak in the world) and Zhuoqiong Peak at 7,589 meters above sea level. To the southeast is Ma Karu Peak (8463 meters above sea level, the fifth highest peak in the world), 3 kilometers to the north is Zhangzi Peak with an altitude of 7543 meters, and to the west are Nuptse Peak (7855 meters) and Pumori Peak (7145 meters). On the periphery of these giant peaks, there are some world-class peaks facing each other in the distance: to the southeast is the world's third highest peak Kanchengjia (8585 meters above sea level, the boundary peak between Nepal and Sikkim); to the west is Gezhongkang with an altitude of 7998 meters. Peak, 8201-meter Cho Oyu peak and 8012-meter Shishapangma peak. It forms a magnificent scene of peaks approaching and the peaks surging.