Mount Everest Climb 2004

Have you dreamed of climbing Mount Everest?  Now you have chance to see what it’s like in an awesome, short video posted to Youtube by user rahulrathan.  There are no credits so I cannot tell the names of those who have made the climb.  But it is an incredible film of a May 12th - May 16th, 2004 climb by several men from Base Camp to through the Khumbu Icefall at Camp 2 at 21,300 ft (6500 m) to the summit at 29,028 (8848 m).  Narration by one of the climbers along the way. 

Britannica on Mount Everest:

Peak on the crest of the Himalayas, southern Asia. The highest point on Earth, with a summit at 29,035 ft (8,850 m), it lies on the border between Nepal and Tibet (China). Numerous attempts to climb Everest were made from 1921; the summit was finally reached by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal in 1953. In dispute is whether the English explorer George Mallory, whose body was discovered below Everest’s peak in 1999, had actually reached the peak earlier, in 1924, and was descending it when he died. The formerly accepted elevation of 29,028 ft (8,848 m), established in the early 1950s, was recalculated in the late 1990s.

For more information, see the Answers.com entry on Mount Everest.

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