Myanmar Mountaineers Depart From Yangon, To Ascend World Highest Mt. Everest

By the supporting of Htoo Group of Companies, Htoo Foundation, AGD Bank ၊ Htoo Housing & Property Development and Yangon Air Port Group, three Myanmar representative mountaineers; Ko Pyae Phyo Aung, Ko Win Ko Ko and Ko Nyi Nyi Aung from TCCM(Technical Climbing Club of Myanmar) departed from Yangon International Airport to the Nepal on the evening of March 26, to ascend world highest mountain, the Everest.
The mountaineering team will make their official start of the expedition, on March 29. The expedition concludes date would be the period from June 1st to 3rd.
Htoo Foundation, Htoo Group of Companies and other branches companies is making the best wishes for the mountaineering team that they can setup the Myanmar flag on the summit of Mt.
Everest and create the landmark for the Myanmar in the history of Mt. Everest.
*********
Fascinating Facts of Mt. Everest
1. The last year that no one climbed to the Everest summit was 1974.
2. Reinhold Messner was the first to climb the mountain without oxygen, along with Peter Habeler, in 1978. Two years later, Messner surpassed the achievement, reaching the summit solo – again without bottled oxygen.
3. In 1856, the mountain was named after George Everest, a retired Surveyor General who never even saw the peak.
4. Peter Hillary, Sir Edmund Hillary's son, climbed the mountain in 1990, making the pair the first father and son to do so.
5. The Trigonometric Survey of India in the 1850s confirmed Everest’s existence.
6. The Indian mathematician RadhanathSikdar was the first to put a figure on the height of the mountain. He calculated that it reached 29,002 feet (now adjusted to 29,035 feet), the highest point ever recorded on earth.
7. The first flight over Everest took place in April 1933. Douglas Douglas-Hamilton and fellow pilot David Fowler MacIntyre flew a Westland PV-3 biplane over the summit.
8. Eighty years later, Douglas’s grandson Charles Douglas-Hamilton flew to the peak as a passenger in a Jetstream 41 Turboprop.
9. In May 2005 Didier Delsalle claimed to be the first helicopter pilot to land on the summit of Everest.
10. The worst year on Everest, in terms of deaths, was 1996 when 15 climbers died in the season, including nine in a single incident (documented in Jon Krakauer's book, 'Into Thin Air'). A close second was as recently as 2012, when 11 climbers lost their lives. Hundreds of corpses are thought to be still on the mountain.
11.The most dangerous area of the mountain is often considered to be the Khumbu Ice Fall, which is particularly dangerous due to the unpredictable movement of the icefall.
12. The oldest person to climb Everest is 80 year-old Yuichiro Miura of Japan.
13. Yiuchio Miura also successfully skied down nearly 4,200 vertical feet of the mountain (although not the whole way) from the South Col. A documentary, The Man Who Skied Down Everest, was the first sports film to win an Academy Award for best documentary in 1975.
14. The mountain has many names. In Nepal the mountain is known as Sagarmatha, meaning “forehead of the sky” and in Tibet the mountain “Chomolangma” or ‘mother of the universe.’
15. The youngest person to reach the summit is 13 year old Jordan Romero. In May 2010, the young American broke the record previously held by 15 year old Ming Kipa of Nepal.
16. In 2010, Dubai broke the record for both the world’s tallest building and tallest man-made structure of any kind with the BurjKhalifa at 829m high. Everest is more than ten times its height.
17. The world’s second highest building, Taipei 101 in Taiwan, which held the record between 2004 and 2010 at 509 metres, would need to be stacked up more than 17 times over to reach the peak of Everest.
18. It normally takes around 12 hours to climb the final mile from the highest Base Camp to the summit.
19.Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa currently holds the record for the highest number of successful ascents, having climbed Everest 21 times since 1990.
20. The British record is held by Kenton Cool who has now climbed to the summit of Everest 11 times.
21. The temperature at the summit never rises above freezing, averaging -32F (-36C) in winter and -2F (-19C) in summer.
22. Last May, a local Nepalese woman, Churim Sherpa was the first to complete back-to-back climbs to the summit in the same climbing season.
23. The first tweet from the summit was sent by Kenton Cool in 2011.
24. LeannaShuttleworth became the youngest British woman to scale the heights of Everest when she climbed to the summit aged 19 in 2012.
25. Every year the mountain grows taller by 4mm as a result of the upward thrust generated by two opposing tectonic plates.
26. The rock at the summit of Everest is marine limestone and would have been deposited on the seafloor around 450 million years ago.
27. Even after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had reached the summit, Everest’s West Ridge widely thought to be unclimbable. However, in 1963 two Americans, Willie Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein, proved otherwise when they reached the summit using this route.
28. Unsurprisingly, some of the highest ever mountain rescues have taken place on Everest. Perhaps most notable was a 2001 rescue, when a guide and another climber were rescued after spending the night at 28,500 feet.
29. In 2006, Sir Edmund Hillary criticised climbers who failed to rescue a Briton, David Sharp. Mr Sharp, a 34-year-old, died on the mountain.
30. George Mallory and Andrew Irvine were known to have carried Kodak camera with them on their ill-fated attempt on the mountain in 1924. Some believe that they reached the summit. The only way that could be proved would be if the camera were ever found...although recent attempts to find Irvine's body have been criticised by his relatives.
31. Towards the top of Everest, people take in approximately a third of the amount of oxygen that they do at sea level. It’s not that the composition of the air changes - it’s just that the air pressure reduces significantly, meaning less can be absorbed into the system.
32. On 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen Nepalese guides in the Khumbu Icefall. And the Nepal government stopped the 2014 mountaineering season.

Htoo Foundation added 5 new photos.