What are 5 facts about the Khumbu Glacier on Mount Everest in Nepal?
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These are various information off the internet.. copy paste, as well as some websites. \n\n\nThe Khumbu Glacier is located in the Khumbu region of northeastern Nepal and flows down from the Khumbu Icefall on the southern slopes of Mount Everest. Khumbu is the biggest glacier in Nepal.\n\nKhumbu \nKhumbu is one of three subregions of the main Sherpa settlement of the Himalaya, the other two being Solu and Pharak. Khumbu is located in northeastern Nepal and includes the town of Namche Bazaar as well as the villages of Thami, Khumjung, Pangboche and Kunde. The famous Buddhist monastery at Tengboche is also located in the Khumbu.\n\nDue to its location in the Himalaya, the Khumbu's elevation ranges from 3,300 metres (11,000') all the way to the highest point on Earth, Mount Everest at 8,850m (29,035'). Sagarmatha National Park is also enclosed within the Khumbu region\nKhumbu Icefall \n \nThe Khumbu Icefall is an icefall at the head of the Khumbu Glacier.\n\nThe icefall is found at 5,486 metres (18,000 feet) on the Nepali slopes of Mount Everest not far above Base Camp and southwest of the summit. The icefall is regarded as one of the most dangerous stages of the climb to Everest’s summit. The Khumbu glacier that forms the icefall moves at such speed that large crevasses open with little warning. The large towers of ice or seracs found at the icefall have been known suddenly to collapse. It is estimated that the glacier advances three to four feet (~0.9 to 1.2 m) down the mountain every day.\n\nSince the structures are continually changing, crossing the Khumbu Icefall is extremely dangerous. Even extensive rope and ladder crossings cannot prevent loss of life. Many people have died in this area. Exposed crevasses may be easy to avoid, but those buried under snow can form treacherous snow bridges through which unwary climbers can fall.\n\n\n\nhttp://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/docrep/55408e/55408e02.htm\n\nhttp://www.geophys.washington.edu/~lar/p43abs.pdf#search='khumbu%20Glacier'
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It is Everest ... but it is 29,035 ft.
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The Himalayas, some of the tallest mountains in the world... home to Mt. Everest, K2, etc.
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everest in the hymalayan mountains, in nepal
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Mt. Everest 8848 meters or 29,029 ft
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8848 metres or 29,028 feet is the official answer.  But if you really mean the 'exact' height, nobody knows - if by exact you mean to the nearest millimetre or inch, or even nearest foot or metre.  Two of the most accurate surveys differ by 6 metres (about 20 feet).\n\nThe reason the exact height is so hard to calculate is due to three factors.  Firstly it is a very inhospitable place.  Secondly the mountain is 'growing' between 1 and 3 millimetres a year as India continues to move north, pushing up against Asia (the force that pushed up the Himalayas in the first place).  Finally, official measurements of mountains include the snow and ice 'on top' and the depth of this in the case of Everest varies from year to year, it has variously been measured as 1 metre or 3.5 metres thick.\n\nThe Government of Nepal has settled on 8848 metres and that is (generally) the figure accepted 'officially' in books and in the climbing community.  The Wikipedia article (link below) gives a very good explanation of the height issue.
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The Himalaya is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. By extension, it is also the name of the massive mountain system which includes the Himalaya proper, the Karakoram, the Hindu Kush, and a host of minor ranges extending from the Pamir Knot. The name is from Sanskrit himālaya, a tatpurusha compound meaning "the abode of snow" (from hima "snow", and ālaya "abode"; see also Himavat).\n\nTogether, the Himalaya mountain system is the planet's highest and home to all fourteen of the world's highest peaks: the Eight-thousanders, including Mount Everest. To comprehend the enormous scale of Himalaya peaks, consider that Aconcagua, in the Andes, at 6,962 m, is the highest peak outside the Himalaya, while the Himalaya system has over 100 separate mountains exceeding 7,200 m.\n\nThe Himalaya stretches across five nations, Bhutan, China, India, Nepal, and Pakistan. It is the source of three of the world's major river systems, the Indus Basin, the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin and the Yangtze Basin. An estimated 750 million people live in the watershed area of the Himalayan rivers, which also includes Bangladesh.\n\nYou can read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas
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Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet.\n\nMeasurement\nRadhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852, using trigonometric calculations based on measurements of "Peak XV" (as it was then known) made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India. Measurement could not be made from closer due to a lack of access to Nepal. "Peak XV" was found to be exactly 29,000 feet (8,839 m) high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 feet (8,840 m). The arbitrary addition of 2 feet (0.6 m) was to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.\n\nThe mountain is approximately 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high, although there is some variation in the measurements. The mountain K2 comes in second at 8,611 m (28,251 feet) high. On May 22, 2005, the People's Republic of China's Everest Expedition Team ascended to the top of the mountain. After several months' complicated measurement and calculation, on October 9, 2005, the PRC's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the height of Everest as 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft). They claimed it was the most accurate measurement to date.[1]. But this new height is based on the actual highest point of rock and not on the snow and ice that sits on top of that rock on the summit, so, in keeping with the practice used on Mont Blanc and Khan Tangiri Shyngy, it is not shown here. The Chinese also measured a snow/ice depth of 3.5 m,[4] which implies agreement with a net elevation of 8,848 m. But in reality the snow and ice thickness varies, making a definitive height of the snow cap, and hence the precise height attained by summiteers without sophisticated GPS, impossible to determine.\n\nThe elevation of 8,848 m (29,028 ft) was first determined by an Indian survey in 1955, made closer to the mountain, also using theodolites. It was subsequently reaffirmed by a 1975 Chinese measurement [2]. In both cases the snow cap, not the rock head, was measured. In May 1999 an American Everest Expedition, directed by Bradford Washburn, anchored a GPS unit into the highest bedrock. A rock head elevation of 8,850 m (29,035 feet), and a snow/ice elevation 1 m (3 ft) higher, were obtained via this device [3]. Nepal, however, did not officially recognize this survey, and the discrepancy with the above mentioned 2005 Chinese survey is significantly greater than the surveys' claimed accuracy.\n\nIt is thought that the plate tectonics of the area are adding to the height and moving the summit north-eastwards. Two accounts, [4], [5] suggest the rates of change are 4 mm per year (upwards) 3-6 mm per year (northeastwards), but this account[6] mentions more lateral movement (27 mm), and even shrinkage has been suggested [7].\n\nEverest is the mountain whose summit attains the greatest distance above sea level. Two other mountains are sometimes claimed as alternative "tallest mountains on Earth". Mauna Kea in Hawaii is tallest when measured from its base; it rises over 10,203 m (about 6.3 mi) when measured from its base on the mid-ocean floor, but only attains 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level. The summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2,168 m (7,113 ft) farther from the Earth's centre (6,384.4 km or 3,967.1 mi) than that of Everest (6,382.3 km or 3,965.8 mi), because the Earth bulges at the Equator. However, Chimborazo attains a height of 6,267 m (20,561 ft) above sea level, and by this criterion it is not even the highest peak of the Andes.\n\nThe deepest spot in the ocean is deeper than Everest is high: the Challenger Deep, located in the Mariana Trench, is so deep that if Everest were to be placed into it there would be more t
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It looks like it is $25,000. \n\nPermits and Fees in Nepal: \nClimbing Permit\n  1 person - $25,000\n \n(Prorated per person)\n  2 people - $40,000\n \n 3 people - $48,000\n \n 4 people - $56,000\n \n 5 people - $60,000\n \n 6 people - $66,000\n \n 7 people - $70,000\nSagarmatha National Park Entrance Fee  $100 per team\nKhumbu Icefall Fee  $2,375 per team\nPaid to Sagarmatha Park, which maintains the route.\n\nI included the link from National Geographic that sets it out..
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Mt. Whitney, Mt. Shasta, Mt Everest & Mt. Kentega
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recent happening in Nepal
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Sagarmatha is Mount Everest. its 8850 metres high.
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Everest is part of the Himalaya mountain range along the border of Nepal and Tibet. It is located 27° 59' North latitude, 86° 55' East longitude.
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With out a doubt Bar-Head Geese!\n\nAt 29,028 feet, Mount Everest is tall enough to poke into the jet stream, a high-altitude river of wind that blows at speeds of more than 200 miles an hour. Temperatures on the mountain can plummet low enough to freeze exposed flesh instantly. Its upper reaches offer only a third of the oxygen available at sea level--so little that if you could be transported instantly from sea level to Everest's summit, without time to acclimatize, you would probably lose consciousness within minutes. Kerosene cannot burn here; helicopters cannot fly here. Yet every spring, flocks of bar-headed geese--the world's highest-altitude migrants--fly from their winter feeding grounds in the lowlands of India through the Himalayan range, sometimes even directly above Everest, on their way to their nesting grounds in Tibet. Then every fall these birds retrace their route to India. With a little help from tailwinds, they may be able to cover the one-way trip--more than 1,000 miles--in a single day.
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Mount Everest. Its summit ridge marks the border between Nepal and China. The mountain is approximately 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high. \n\nThe mountain K2 comes in second at 8,611 m (28,251 feet) high.
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Ok. Write to me at <seabug_46@yahoo.com>. We have a countryman (from the Philippines) who is now climbing Mount Everest. I am a college professor in the philippines.
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The HIGHEST is Mount Everest at 8,848 metres.\n\nPu'u Wekiu (in Hawaii, USA) is the tallest as it starts from the ocean.\nit is 4208 metres high