Everest
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The 10 tallest mountains in the world are in the Himalayas. What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest is 8,848 meters high. It is so high, airplanes fly at that height.
The first people to climb Everest wereEdmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay his Sherpa guide.
Tenzing Norgay was a Sherpa, the Sherpa people live in the Himalayas and no one can climb Everest without their help.
One of the most difficult things to get past on Everest are the many crevasses.
The Lhotse Face is a famous part of the Everest climb. It is a steep sheet of ice.
The final 800 meters of Everest is known as the Death Zone. Here, only 1 in 8 climbers survive.
