7 facts you may not know about Mount Everest

Arabiaweather.com - Ismail Qasimi - More than 60 years have passed since "Edmund Hillary" and "Tenzing Norgay" entered history as the first conquerors of the summit of Mount Everest when they reached this summit on May 29, 1953 AD. To this day, we still hear countless stories of victories and attempts to reach the top.

Even still, there are some interesting facts about Mount Everest that you might not know.

Although the Himalayas were formed 60 million years ago, the history of Everest is older than that. The rocks on the mountain were part of the sedimentary layers under the sea 450 million years ago. Upper mountain formations that contain fossils of marine organisms that once lived in the ocean.

Mount Everest got its name from a man who had never actually seen the top of the mountain , retired British surveyor George Everest who discovered the mountain but couldn't reach it. by name.

- Before the name of the mountain was changed after Sir George Everest, a Welsh geographer had called it the "Fifteenth Summit", and this name was used until 1856 AD.

- 10 percent of those who attempted to climb died at the top , and it is known that one in ten climbers lost their lives on the way back, and there are still about 200 bodies scattered across the mountain.

- The bodies of two climbers remained missing for more than 75 years, namely George Mallory, who had one of the first three attempts to climb the summit, and he was along with fellow climber Andrew Irvine in 1924, and over the previous decades, researchers were unable to find their bodies.

- At this height there are some living creatures , and although the high altitude in the sky is barely enough air to breathe, there are some spiders known scientifically as Euophrys omnisuperstes, known as pop-up spiders, and they live in the Himalayas between holes and cracks on the slopes of Mount Everest.

- In 1994 a research team found that Mount Everest is still growing about 4 millimeters every year.