The youngest climber to conquer Mount Everest. The youngest champions in interesting areas (photo)
The youngest killer, college graduate, billionaire and others ...
Society has a tendency to reverence for youth - it is during this period of life that our bodies are the most powerful and beautiful. However, many achievements often require training, preparation, and wisdom. We want to tell you about ten people who have achieved success, albeit in some cases very doubtful, at a very young age.
1. The youngest serial killer
Anyone who has spent more than ten minutes in the playground knows very well that children can be cruel. In fact, many of the antisocial tendencies that ultimately lead to more serious crimes manifest themselves at a very young age: an example is animal abuse — sometimes a boy or girl can even kill a defenseless animal.
However, finding a serial killer who has not yet reached puberty is extremely difficult. The youngest known serial killer was eight-year-old Amardip Sada from Bihar, India. By the age of eight, Garden had already killed three, including his young cousin and sister. After the murder of a neighbor's child, he was taken into custody.
All three were beaten to death with a stick and stones. What exactly caused the Garden’s behavior is not known - the police in response to a press statement only replied that this boy "often smiles and asks for cookies."
2. The youngest marathon runner
Any parent who has at least once taken a small child for a walk in the park can confirm that the children are not too hardy. But a little boy named Budha Singh from Orissa, India, does not fall under this stereotype - at the age of three, Singh began to participate in marathons.
The child's mother, a paralyzed beggar, was forced to sell him. The boy eventually ended up with Biranchi Das, the owner of an orphanage and a judo coach. Once Das caught little Budhu for an unseemly act and made him run as punishment - Budha ran for several hours.
By the age of four, he took part in 48 marathons. There was some concern that Das was using Budhi’s abilities for personal gain, so that the boy was taken from his guardianship in 2007.
Now Budha is in a state boarding school, and Das was killed a year later in a random street incident. Interestingly, the state of Orissa is also home to Faye Singh, the oldest marathoner in the world who ran a marathon over the age of 100 years.
3. The youngest college graduate
All young geeks, unfortunately, are characterized by rapid burnout caused by the huge amount of work and the complete denial of their own youth. One of these geeks is Adragon De Mello, who graduated from the University of California at Santa Cruz in 1988 at the age of 11. He was the youngest college graduate in history to receive a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics.
Fifteen years later, instead of changing the world in a secret laboratory, De Mello worked at The Home Depot, a network selling repair materials. His record was ultimately broken by a boy named Michael Kearney, who had graduated from college at the age of ten and received two master's degrees before he reached adulthood. Kearney later participated in the show "Gold Rush", in which he won a million dollars.
4. The youngest conqueror of Everest
In recent years, climbing Mount Everest has become an increasingly commercial enterprise: after Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay climbed Mount Everest in 1953, thousands of people managed to repeat the same achievement.
However, climbing is still incredibly dangerous: about 10% of climbers die on the slopes of the mountain, trying to conquer it. Considering what experience is required for this, as well as the cost of equipment (sometimes it takes several thousand dollars to equip), it is not surprising that most climbers are middle-aged.
One of the youngest conquerors of Everest was the TV presenter Bear Grylls, who accomplished his feat in 1998 at the age of 23 years. But this achievement fades in comparison with Jordan Romero from Big Bear, California, who climbed Mount Everest in May 2010 - Jordan was only 13 years old when he conquered the highest mountain in the world.
After Everest, he also conquered Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Aconcagua, McKinley, Punchak-Jaya and the Vinson Massif in Antarctica - all this he managed to do before the age of 15. He is currently working on his autobiographical book, entitled The Boy Who Conquered Everest: The Story of Jordan Romero.
5. The youngest person on the BillboardThere is no shortage of young musicians, but not all of them fall into the charts until they are old enough and popular. Everything changed at the beginning of 2012, when Blue Ivy Carter, the daughter of megastars Jay-Z and Beyoncé, starred in a cameo to her father’s song “Glory” the day after her birth.
The song tells about the father’s love for the child. It even contains the words: "The best that I created is you." As you would expect, Blue Ivey’s contribution to the video was minimal, but millions of Jay-Z fans cried. This turned out to be quite enough to secure a place on the chart and earn the status of the youngest person ever appearing in the Billboard rating. Together with the name of the father, the girl’s name for some time appeared on the 74th place among hundreds of the most popular hits.
6. The youngest drill instructor
Donny Danagan was an actor in his childhood: he starred in the 1939 films “Son of Frankenstein” and “The Tower of London”. True, his most famous role was the voice acting of Bambi in the Walt Disney cartoon of the same name. This was his last role in the movie - shortly afterwards, his parents divorced, and he had to work and seek refuge in a boarding house. At 18, he joined the Marine Corps and became the youngest drill driver in the world.
A military career brought Dannaghan to Vietnam, where he was wounded. He ultimately received the rank of major until his retirement in 1977. During his stay in the Marine Corps, Donnie kept his movie work a secret - this became known only in June 2005. Donny is now 79 years old, and he says he has learned to value his fame.
7. The youngest suicide
Of course, the youngest suicide is a tragic record. They became the six-year-old Samantha Kiberski of Oregon, who hanged herself on December 2, 2009.
The first grader was sent to her room after a quarrel with her mother as a punishment, where the girl wrapped a belt around her neck and fastened it to the bed. After her seemingly lifeless body was discovered, she was taken to the hospital, where she later died.
Police believe this was an accident, but state medical experts determined that it was suicide, which led to a debate about whether children at this age can even understand the consequences of such a decision.
8. The youngest billionaireMost of us at least sometimes dream of fabulous wealth, castles and Ferrari. Unfortunately, the reality is much more severe: few of us become a millionaire, let alone a billionaire. Most millionaires gained their wealth through a series of smart financial decisions or simple luck. Nevertheless, with the advent of the Internet, the number of very young rich people has increased. The most obvious candidate for the title of the youngest billionaire in the world at first glance is Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of Facebook - he became a billionaire at the age of 23 in 2007 . However, part of his fortune, Zuckerberg had to give to his college roommate Dustin Moskovits, who came up with the name of the social network. Despite the fact that Dustin has not been working in the company for a long time, his share as an owner is 6%. And yes - he is exactly eight days younger than Zuckerberg.
Most of us represent grandmothers as old women who tint their hair, bake cookies and send us 1,000 rubles for our birthday. However, several women became grandmothers, not even reaching the age of 20.
The youngest grandmother in the world is a girl named Mama Zi, who worked in a brothel in the town of Kalambar, Nigeria. Mom Tzu was eight years old at the time of the birth of her daughter, and her daughter gave birth to her child at the age of eight and a half years, so Mom Tzu became a grandmother at 17 years old - at this age, many girls from developed countries still do not even have time to lose their virginity.
However, this story happened in the 19th century, and there is no documentary evidence. A more official contender for the title of the youngest grandmother is Romanian Rifka Stanescu, although she became a grandmother only at 23 years old. The grandson of Stanescu, two-year-old Ion, is already engaged to an eight-year-old neighbor.
10. The youngest American veteran of World War II
Most 12-year-old boys are interested in games and, perhaps, a little girls, but Calvin Graham is the owner of a completely different character. Graham was credited with the U.S. Navy after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. At the age of 12, he participated in the battle in the Pacific Ocean - during the battle for Guadalcanal he acted as a hero and received multiple shrapnel wounds.
I must say that for the time being, the army did not know anything about his age. After he was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart orders, his mother told the command that her son was essentially a minor. Instead of sending him home, the Navy command put the young man under house arrest in his own cabin for three months - for lying.
A childhood decision to serve haunted him for the rest of his life. Graham was stripped of his rewards and spent years fighting for medical benefits. In the end, he joined the Marines when he was 17 years old, but was forced to resign after injuring his back.
Over the years, various presidents petitioned for him, including Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton. Graham never received his Purple Heart back while he was alive - he was returned the award only after his death, 50 years after receiving it.
The Republic of Nepal, known as the highest mountain country in the world. On the north side it is bordered by the Great Himalayan Range, famous for several peaks exceeding 8000 meters, including Everest - the most on the planet (8848 meters).
Everest: who conquered the place of the gods
According to popular belief, this place was considered the abode of the gods, so no one came up with the idea to climb there.
The top of the world even had special names: Chomolungma (“Mother is the goddess of the world”) - among the Tibetans and Sagarmatha (“Forehead of the heavens”) - among Nepalese. They began to call it Everest only in 1856, which China and India did not agree with, as well as the immediate culprit of the renaming - the British aristocrat, surveyor, military man in one person - George Everest, who was the first to determine the exact location of the Himalayan peak and its height. In the press, there are still disputes from time to time that a mountain located in Asia should not have a European name. Who was the first to conquer Everest - the peak that almost every climber dreams of?
The graceful beauty of the top of the world
The nature of Everest with rocks, snows and eternal ice is menacingly harsh and silently beautiful. It is almost always dominated by severe frosts (up to -60 ° C), frequent events - avalanches and snowfalls, and the tops of mountains from all sides are blown by the worst winds, the gust of which reaches 200 km / h. At an altitude of about 8 thousand meters, the "death zone" begins, referred to as such for the lack of oxygen (30% of the amount present at sea level).
Risk for what?
Nevertheless, despite such harsh environmental conditions, the conquest of Everest was and is a cherished dream of many climbers of the world. To stand on top for a few minutes to go down in history, to see the world from under heaven — isn't that happiness? For the sake of such an unforgettable moment, climbers are ready to risk their own lives. And they risk it, knowing that they can remain in a stranded land forever and ever. Factors of the possible death of the person who got there are lack of oxygen, frostbite, injury, heart failure, fatal accidents and even the indifference of partners.
So, in 1996, a group of climbers from Japan met with three Indians - climbers who were in a fainting state. They died because the Japanese did not help the "competitors", indifferently passing by. In 2006, 42 climbers, along with the television crews of the Discovery channel, indifferently walked past the Englishman, who was slowly dying from overcooling, and also tried to interview him and take photographs. As a result, the daredevil, who dared to conquer Everest alone, died from frostbite and oxygen starvation. One of the Russian climbers, Alexander Abramov, explains the similar actions of his colleagues as follows: “At an altitude of more than 8000 meters, a person who seeks to conquer the peak is fully occupied with himself and does not have unnecessary strength to assist in such transcendental conditions.”
George Mallory's Attempt: Successful or Not?
So after all, who was the first to conquer Everest? The discovery of George Everest, which never conquered this mountain, triggered the unbridled desire of many climbers to reach the top of the world, which was the first (in 1921) George Mallory - compatriot of Everest.
Unfortunately, his attempt was unsuccessful: heavy snowfalls, strong winds and the lack of experience of climbing to such a height stopped the British climber. However, an unattainable peak attracted Mallory, and he made two more unsuccessful ascents (in 1922 and 1924). During the last expedition, his team mate Andrew Irwin disappeared without a trace. The last one through the gap in the clouds rising to the top was one of the expedition members Noel Odell. Only after 75 years, the remains of Mallory were discovered by an American search expedition at an altitude of 8155 meters. Judging by their location, climbers fell into the abyss. Also in academia, when researching the same remains and their location, it was suggested that George Mallory was the first person to conquer Everest. The body of Andrew Irwin was never found.
The years 1924-1938 were marked by the organization of a number of expeditions, though unsuccessful. After them, Everest was forgotten for a while, because the Second World War began.
Pioneers
Who first conquered Everest? The Swiss decided to storm the unchallenged peak in 1952, however, the maximum altitude they traveled stopped at around 8500 meters, 348 meters were not amenable to climbers due to bad weather conditions.
If we assume that Mallory could not get to the top of the highest mountain in the world, then the question of who first conquered Everest can be answered with confidence - New Zealander Edmund Hillary in 1953, and then not himself, but with an assistant - Sherpa Norge Tenzing .
By the way, Sherpas (from Tibetan, “Sher” - east, “pa” - people) are the very people without whom, perhaps, hardly anyone would have managed to reach such a desirable peak. This is a mountain people who settled in Nepal more than 500 years ago. It was the Sherpas who managed to climb Mount Everest the easiest, since this mountain is their homeland, where every path has been familiar since childhood.
Sherpas - reliable helpers on the way to the top
Sherpas are a very good-natured people, not able to offend anyone. For them, the murder of an ordinary mosquito or a field mouse is considered a terrible sin, which requires a very strong grind. Sherpas have their own language, but nowadays they almost all speak English. This is the great merit of Edmund Hillary - the first conqueror of Everest. In gratitude for the invaluable help, he built a school at his own expense in one of the main villages.
Although with all the penetration into the life of the Sherpas of civilization, their lifestyle remains largely patriarchal. Traditional settlements are stone two-story houses, on the ground floor of which cattle are usually kept: yaks, sheep, goats, and the family itself, as a rule, is located on the second floor; there are also a kitchen, bedrooms, a common room. Furniture minimum. Thanks to the pioneer climbers, electricity recently appeared; they still don’t have gas or any central heating. As fuel for cooking, they use yak litter, which is pre-collected and dried on stones.
Inaccessible Mount Everest ... Who was the first to conquer this distant peak: or George Mallory? Scientists are looking for an answer to this day, as well as the answer to the question of which year Everest was conquered: in 1924 or in 1953.
Everest Conquest Records
Everest succumbed to more than one person, even set records for a temporary climb to the top. For example, in 2004, Sherp Pemba Dorzh reached her from the base camp in 10 hours 46 minutes, while most climbers take up to several days for the same operation. The fastest descended from the mountain in 1988, the Frenchman Jean-Marc Boisin, however, he made the jump on a steam plane.
Women who have conquered Everest are in no way inferior to men, also stubbornly and persistently overcoming every meter of climbing up. The first representative of the weak half of humanity in 1975 was Japanese Yunko Tabey, and 10 days later - Phantog, a Tibetan climber.
Who was the first to conquer Everest among the elderly? The oldest conqueror of the summit is 76-year-old resident of Nepal - Min Bahadur Sherkhan, and the youngest - 13-year-old American Jordan Romero. The persistence of another young conqueror of the “top of the world”, 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tseri, whose first attempt was unsuccessful due to lack of strength and frostbite of the hands of both hands, is of interest. Upon returning to Tembe, 5 fingers were amputated, which did not stop him; he conquered Everest in his second ascent.
Among the disabled, there is also the first person to conquer Everest. This is Mark Inglis, who climbed to the top of the world in 2006 with the help of prostheses.
The hero even joked that, unlike other climbers, he would not freeze his toes. Moreover, he frostbitten his legs earlier, while trying to climb the highest peak in New Zealand - Cook Peak, after which they were amputated to him.
Apparently, Everest has a certain magical power if hundreds of climbers rush towards it. He who conquered him once more than once returned, trying to do it again.
Alluring Peak - Everest
Who first conquered Everest? Why are people so drawn to this place? There are many reasons for this. Tickling nerves, lack of thrills, desire to test oneself, dullness of everyday life ....
Texas Millionaire Dick Bass is the man who conquered Everest. He, not being a professional climber, was not going to spend years carefully preparing for a dangerous climb and decided to conquer the peak of the world immediately, as they say: here and now. Bass was ready to pay any money to someone who would contribute to the realization of his seemingly unrealistic dream.
Dick Bass was able to conquer the summit of Everest, and the assembled team turned out to be assistants in the expedition, which provided the millionaire with comfort when climbing up; people carried all the cargo, tents, water, food. So to say, the climb was an all-inclusive type, and this was the beginning of commercial trips to the top.
Since then, since 1985, anyone who has enough money to do this can conquer the summit. Today, the cost of one such ascent varies from 40 to 85 thousand dollars, depending on the side of the ascent to the mountain. If the trip is from Nepal, then it is more expensive, because it requires a special permission of the king, worth 10 thousand dollars. The remaining amount is paid for the organization of the expedition.
And there was even a wedding ...
In 2005, Mona Mule and Pem Georgie played a wedding on top of the world. Climbing upstairs, the newlyweds took off for a few minutes wearing traditional colored garlands around their necks. Then Pem anointed his bride’s forehead with scarlet powder, which symbolized marriage. The newlyweds kept their act a secret from everyone: parents, acquaintances, partners on the expedition, because they were not sure about the successful outcome of the event.
So how many people have conquered Everest? Surprisingly, today more than 4000 people. And the most optimal period for climbing gentle weather is spring and autumn. True, such an idyll does not last long - only a few weeks, which climbers try to use as fruitfully as possible.
According to statistics, every tenth of those who storm Everest dies, and most of the accidents occur during the descent, when there is practically no power left. Theoretically, you can conquer Everest in a few days. In practice, gradualness and the optimal combination of climbs and rests are required.
Everyone knows that Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world (relative to sea level). And our 18 crazy facts will make you dream of climbing this unique mountain!
According to official data, based on a measurement in 1954, Mount Everest reaches a height of 8,848 meters. Satellite measurements made in 1999 showed that the mountain is 1.83 meters higher, but this information is disputed.
At the highest point of Everest, a person receives only a third of the amount of oxygen that he usually breathes. It’s not a different air composition, but a lower pressure
Mountain wind speed sometimes exceeds 200 mph
Reinhold Messner was the first to climb a mountain alone and without oxygen in 1980.
Frenchman Marco Siffredi and Austrian Stefan Gatt went down the mountain on a snowboard in 2001
The oldest person to conquer Everest was 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura from Japan
The youngest man to reach the summit of Everest was 13-year-old Jordan Romero. In May 2010, a young American broke the previous record of 15-year-old Min Kip Sherpa
The tallest man-made structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (829 m). Everest is more than 10 times higher than this structure!
The first tweet from the top of Everest was sent by Kenton Cool in 2011. He wrote: "Climbing Mount Everest Number 9. The first tweet from the highest point in the world thanks to a weak 3G signal"
Each year, the mountain becomes 4 mm higher due to the upward thrust created by two opposite tectonic plates
Now Everest can be seen on Google maps, although things have not reached the top. In 2011, the team spent 2 weeks climbing 70 miles to the base camp and taking photographs along the way
Australian Tim McCartney-Snape in May 1990 was the first to climb to the top from sea level without additional oxygen
The first phone call was made from the summit of Everest in the summer of 2013. However, Nepalese officials were not too impressed, and they found it illegal
The record for the longest time spent on the top of Everest belongs to Bab Chiri Sherpa. In 1999, he stayed here for 21 hours.
In 2004, a wedding was held on top of Everest. Moni Mule Pati and Pem Dorji Sherpa, a couple from Nepal, kept their plans secret from other climbers until they reached a peak
Everest is famous for its traffic jams. Sometimes several hundreds of climbers can be on top at the same time.
The mountain was named after George Everest in 1856. He was the chief surveyor of India, but he himself never saw a peak.
1974 was the last year during which no man conquered Everest
Today, May 23, 2013, at 9:05 am (local time), the legendary Japanese climber, 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura, climbed the summit of Everest!
With this ascent, Yuichiro Miura rewrote the age record for the climbers of Everest, becoming the oldest climber to climb it!
Yuichiro Miura climbed Mount Everest with the support of his team, in which his son, 49-year-old Gota Miura, also took part.
In general, climbing from Base Camp took 8 days. The last spurt to the summit from Camp 5 at an altitude of 8.5 thousand meters climbers went in seven hours. Final distance meters were complicated by constant strong winds. Climbing was carried out using oxygen tanks.
Start of the climb of Yuichiro Miura to Everest, May 2013:
"I did it!" said Yuichiro from the summit of Everest over the telephone. "I never thought that you can conquer the summit of Everest at the age of 80. This is the most wonderful feeling in the world, although it is completely exhausted. Even at the advanced age of 80, I can still do something outstanding."
Yuichiro and his team remained on top of Everest for about 30 minutes, taking memorable photos, and then began to descend to the bottom.
But this record of Yuichiro Miura can last only a few days, because after him, next week he will come out to conquer the summit of Everest, even though he suffered a digestive upset just a few days ago.
In addition, the team of Min Bahadur Sherkhan faced financial difficulties when she did not receive the financial assistance promised by the Nepal government (later Purna Chandra Bhattarai, the head of the Nepal mountaineering department, said that this financial assistance was still under consideration by the government).
Yuichiro became a famous conqueror of Everest primarily for his first ever ski slope in May 1970.
Yuichiro Miura is sometimes called "the man who first went skiing from Everest", but more often he is given more ridiculous titles, like "the man who first rolled (almost head over heels) from Everest".
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It is worth noting that this film won an Oscar in 1975 in the nomination "Best Documentary".
Note that already in the 2000s, rivalry unfolded between Yuichiro and Min Bahadur in setting an age record for climbing Everest:
The first in the Guinness Book of Records was Yuichiro, who in 2003, at the age of 70, became the oldest person to climb the summit of Mount Everest.
In 2008, Yuichiro, at the age of 75, once again climbed Mount Everest to break his own age record; however, just the day before the Yuchiro climb, on May 25, 2008, the Nepalese mountain climber Min Bahadur Sherchan climbed the summit of Everest at the age of 76 and 340 days, breaking all age records for climbing Everest.
However, in 2008, Yuichiro was awarded the Guinness Book of Records for his conquest of Everest as the only person in the world to ascend Everest twice over the age of 70.
After his second conquest of Everest, Yuichiro planned a “jubilee” ascent at the age of 80; however, in 2009, he was severely injured by falling on a ski: breaking his pelvic bones and left femur. Then, the doctors clearly said that they would have to break with climbing the mountains. However, his strong determination and desire to climb Everest, refuted the arguments of doctors and skeptics. Six months after the accident, Yuichiro started training again.
By the way, in the family of Miura, Yuichiro is not the only record holder, his father - Keizo Miura (Keizo Miura) is also a very athletic and brave man.
In 1981, Yuichiro organizes an ascent to the highest point in Africa - Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m). Naturally, to ski down from there. This time, Yuichiro was not alone, his father Keizo and son Goto participated in this expedition together with him.
In 1981, Keiso was 77 years old, and 22 years later in 2003, Keiso Miura did an act that honored him in the Guinness Book of Records - he went downhill skiing in the White Valley in Chamonix (France) (there are ski slopes of the highest category of difficulty ) It is not surprising that his grandson Goto spent many years doing the mogul (this is downhill skiing on a special uneven track) and was the leader of the Japanese team in this sport.
Further achievements of Yuichiro Miura were just as “modest”. In 1983, he participated in the Seven Peaks program (climbing the highest points of all continents) by Rick Ridgway and Dick Bass, and on November 30 went skiing on Mount Vinson (5140 m) in Antarctica. And in 1985, Elbrus (5642 m) and Aconcagua (6960 m) fell under his skis.
Yuichiro Miura was born in October 1932 in Aomori Prefecture (north of Honshu Island). His father raised him in an atmosphere of rigor and respect for physical education. A versatile athlete and diligent student, Yuichiro enrolled at Hokkaido University in Sapporo. He studied at the vet. However, at this time, a real ski boom began on the northern Japanese island. Physically strong and dexterous, Yuichiro turned out to be the strongest skier of the university, the city and then the country. Participation in international starts did not bring much fame, to reach the level of the strongest athletes from alpine countries, however, he met differently minded people who opened other horizons for him.
Miura decided on the most important step - he became a professional. Started at commercial events in the United States, where he struck everyone with his composure and absolute fearlessness. Competitions did not bring satisfaction, either material or moral. Yuichiro decided to seek happiness only in the nascent world of ski extremism. The samurai achieved absolute perfection in mastery of himself and his weapon. Miura’s weapon was skiing. He trained selflessly, took risks and won. Soon a series of feats began, which made him a national hero. The world record for speed on a glacier in Cervinia (172 km / h), the first ski descent from Fuji (1966), the first descent from McKinley (1967).
And finally, in 1970, it was Everest's turn. Let's say right away, Miura did not go down from the top of Everest (this was done much later by Kammerlander and Karnichar). The highest point was the South Saddle (about 8,000 meters). However, what he did is unlikely to be repeated. Miura did not slide down the slope and did not traverse the slope, preparing for the turn by a jump at the end of an oblique descent. The Japanese developed a speed of 150 km per hour on the descent along the climbing route. He rode almost straight down and, to slow down, threw a special parachute. The situation was superextreme. Either as a result of an error, or in an attempt to slow down, Miura falls and his uncontrolled fall is like a fall of an inanimate object. The bergschrund is rapidly approaching, a foothill crack, which should become his grave. And suddenly a miracle happens, the skier somehow stops. Rises on a steep slope ten meters from the crack, collects and cordons off a parachute. Calmly and confidently bypasses (ski lost) crack. He is alive, he is collected and calm. Samurai - he is a samurai.
Miura is an atypical Japanese, in a country with a predominantly lifetime employment, he has been in constant working dynamics all his life. Dozens of projects passed through it, millions and millions of yens. He rose to receptions with the emperor and experienced periods of stagnation, received orders, presided at various high meetings, led all the country's skiing, taught at the university, while raising children and taking care of his parents. In 1981, he organized an ascent to the highest point in Africa, Kilimanjaro, which he ascended with his father (then Keiso was 77 years old) and 11-year-old son Goto. In 1983, Winson descends from the highest point of Antarctica. In 1985, after skiing from Elbrus, Miura completed a program of ski slopes from the seven highest peaks of the continents. It seemed that the limit of exploits for one person has been exhausted. But Yuichiro is back.
He came once again to show his strength, to show how long a person should maintain physical fitness, to show how beautiful it is when representatives of different generations understand each other and together do one thing. In 2000, Miura, along with a group of students, climbed one of the five-thousandths in Nepal. And he decided that his climbing career could well be continued. The following year, he successfully climbs the Mera Peak (6476m). And in 2002, the 69-year-old Japanese ascends to Cho Oyu and becomes the most age-old climber to the eight-thousanders. And here is a new attempt, a new challenge. We see Yuichiro on the slopes of Everest. He is still serious and collected. Looks 20 years younger than his age. And it seems that nothing can stop him on his way to his goal.
Here are a few excerpts from Rick Ridgway and Dick Bass’s Seven Peaks. Miura joined an expedition to Mount Vinson in 1983. Antarctica is a very special continent. There are no borders on it, and all management essentially belongs to scientists. Athletes and even just tourists were not there until the 80s and no one was officially going to allow them there. The cost of the program was also an important deterrent. Therefore, even such punchy people as Wells and Bass (millionaires, initiators of the program) took almost two years to organize an expedition to the highest point of Antarctica. It turned out, among other things, that there are only two aircraft in the world that can reach the necessary point, land and climb on an unprocessed ice heel. And that only 2 pilots in the world are capable of taking such a flight. And that a number of points should coincide, and still the success of the expedition is not guaranteed. The budget of the expedition amounted to a million dollars, such a sum was hard to lay out even to Bass and Wells. It is good that they were joined by the famous skier and climber Yukio Miura, who managed to raise several hundred thousand dollars in then prosperous Japan. In addition to them, the famous English climber Chris Bonington played a significant role in the expedition.
The flight to the Vinson area was in itself a match for a risky climb. Private plane DC-3, 1944 of release was chartered. The flight went first from Canada through California to the south of Chile, then to the Antarctic base and to the peak region. When landing as an ice flight, Giles Kershaw just skied on the surface of the glacier and again ascended into the sky. It was intelligence. From the second approach, he successfully landed, pretty much galloping around the ditches. The team embarked on an enthusiastic climb. It seemed that there were no significant obstacles. However, the first attempt was thwarted by a strong wind. Peaks reached only Bonington. On the second attempt, November 30, 1983, Bass succeeded in climbing in conjunction with Rick Ridgway, followed by the others, including Wells. At the same time, Miura successfully descended from almost the top to the base camp.
“In the hangar, I met Yuichiro Miura and his cameraman, Tae Maeda. Miura dismantled the equipment that occupied the entire hangar. He had extremely muscular legs and a pretty, tanned, and weathered face. He looked about thirty and a little, maybe forty (I was amazed to learn that he was 51 years old). The temperature was usual for summer Australia, somewhere around + 30, Miura was bare-chested, in sports shorts and large leather boots. “New shoes,” he said smiling, “it’s better to carry them in advance.”
The operator took pictures while he dismantled the equipment, checked the ski bindings, packed the backpack. Miura still planned to descend from the Vinson summit and prepare an hour and a half broadcast for Japanese television. Miura was a modern samurai, adamantly facing skiing hazards; the national hero is so well-known in Japan that he was once besieged in a Tokyo restaurant by a crowd of exalted girls who tore his shirt and wrote their names on it with a marker. "...
“Our two Japanese comrades, Yuichiro Miura and his cameraman, Tae Maeda, also came up with us. Miura was perhaps the heaviest load of all, he carried all the ski equipment for the descent from the top. At this tense moment, we realized how great it was that Miura and Maeda were with us on this trip, both self-sufficient, hardworking and sociable. Fortunately, they both spoke good English, although Dick (Bass) kept trying to practice Japanese at the level of a tourist phrasebook. ”
“Frank succeeded, no doubt only because Miura, despite her own large backpack, insisted on taking part of his cargo. If we called Bass a dynamo machine for energy, then self-confident, a beautiful Japanese ski hero, at the age of 50, was a “superman”. Frank said he would never forget his generosity. In fact, for many months, Frank constantly talked about Miura as one of the greatest people he had ever met. ”
“Frank, a professional in the film business (for the sake of the seven peaks project, he left the post of the head of the Warner Brothers company), he believed that Miura would ski only part of the way to camp 1. After all, there was a real icefall with cracks and towers of serac on the way down. Frank believed that Miura would find a couple of spectacular plans, make a couple of takes from different angles. But he won’t go straight down. He was wrong. “Miura drove from the tents of Camp 2 to Camp 1 without stopping,” Frank later said, “he flew over the cracks, circled the seraks at full speed, and jumped over the blocks. It was the most incredible descent I've ever seen. ”
Everest is the highest peak in the world, located in the Himalayas. Every year a great many professional climbers and extreme lovers try to conquer it. But is it that simple? Of course, such ascents require some knowledge and thorough preparation.
The first attempt to measure the height of Everest was recorded in 1856 - according to the data obtained, the height of the peak was 29,000 feet (8839 meters). However, according to measurements made by Chinese scientists during an expedition to Everest in May
2005, the height of the mountain was 8844.43 meters (± 21 cm) above sea level.
At the highest point of the mountain, you will inhale only a third of the amount of oxygen that you usually breathe. The reason for this is the reduced air pressure.
Every year, starting in 1969, at least one person was killed when climbing Mount Everest. The only year without death on the mountain was 1977.
At times, the speed of gusts of wind on the mountain reaches almost 200 km / h, and the temperature drops to -40 ° C.
According to statistics, for every 10 successful ascents to Everest, there is one case with a fatal outcome.
A total of about 200 dead bodies rest on the slopes of the mountain, which are physically impossible to lower and put to burial. They are a kind of landmarks for the conquerors of Everest.
In 1980, an Italian of German descent Reinhold Messner hit the whole world with the fact that he managed to climb the summit alone and without oxygen tanks.
In May 2001, 23-year-old Marco Siffredi descended from the highest peak of the planet on a snowboard along the side of Norton's lobby, which runs along the center of the northern side of Everest. In 2002, he again decided to conquer the peak, but disappeared without a trace.
80 years - the age of the oldest conqueror of Everest - the Japanese Yuichiro Miura.
Well, the youngest climber to climb the summit of Everest was 13-year-old American Jordan Romero, who managed to break the record set before him by 15-year-old Nepalese Ming Kipa.
In 2011, the first message appeared on Twitter sent directly from the top of Everest. User Kenton Cool wrote: “9 times on top of Everest! The first tweet from the top of the world, made thanks to a weak 3G signal. "
Every year, Mount Everest is approximately 4 millimeters higher due to the movement of two tectonic plates.
In Google, you can see images from Everest - but without photos of the top. In 2011, the Google team spent 2 weeks, covering about 140 kilometers and taking many pictures along the way.
Tim McCartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer became the first Australians to conquer the summit, and at the same time the first to climb the North Wall without oxygen reserves (May 1990).
In the summer of 2013, the first telephone call was made from the summit of Everest. The Nepalese authorities, however, were not impressed by this and even declared this incident illegal.
In 2007, Bear Grylls became the first person in the world to climb a paramotor in the Himalayas above Everest.
In 1999, Nepalese Babu Chiri Sherpa spent more than 21 hours on top of Everest without using oxygen equipment. He also set a speed record, reaching the peak in 16 hours 56 minutes.
Nepalese Moni Mule Pati and Pem Georgie Sherpa became the first couple in history to marry on top of the world (2004).
There are traffic jams on Everest too. Sometimes hundreds of tourists simultaneously want to conquer the peak.
Everest got its name in honor of the British geographer George Everest in 1856.
1974 was the last year in history, for which no one had conquered Everest.
Mount Everest is the highest point on the planet. According to various sources, its height is from 8844 to 8852 meters. Everest is located in the Himalayas on the border between Nepal and China. At the top of Everest, located in China, strong winds blow at speeds of up to 200 km / h, and air temperature drops to -60 ° С at night.
The history of conquering the highest point of the planet began in the 1920th year, when the Dalai Lama first allowed British climbers here. According to statistics, about 1,500 people have climbed the mountain since then ...
... and they stayed there forever, according to various estimates, from 120 to 200 people of different nationalities (including Russians). On Everest, both beginners and experienced climbers die. But not many people know that the dead remain where fate caught them. Everest has long turned into a cemetery. The bodies lie on the slopes of Everest for years, and some for decades, and no one is in a hurry to lower them down for burial.
Anyone who plans to climb to the top must understand that he has a chance not to return. When climbing, not everything depends on you. A hurricane wind, a frozen valve on an oxygen cylinder, incorrect timing, an avalanche, exhaustion, etc., all this can lead to the death of a climber.
The first climber of Everest and his first victim was the British climber George Mallory. In 1924, he and his group went to the top, but at an altitude of 8500 meters they lost sight of him, and for as long as 75 years. For years, they wondered if Mallory had culminated, and it was not until 1999 that his remains were found very close to her. The body with a broken hip lay towards the top, which means that until the last seconds of his life the Englishman tried to literally crawl up the mountain of his dreams.
Alas, it was not he who became the hero of Everest: only in 1953 did New Zealander Edmund Hillary, in conjunction with a Nepalese Sherpa, reach the peak of Everest. And after these two, daredevils from many countries of the world came to Everest from different sides. For some, this became just a personal feat, others set historical records here.
But far from always man triumphs over harsh nature. By submitting to the people, the mountain collects the ransom of their lives. On Everest, over 200 people have died in 60 years. Until the 90s, mortality here was a record 37%, in recent years it has dropped to 4%.
Even at neighboring Himalayan peaks, also above 8000 meters, this percentage is higher. But it is on Everest that death takes on the most dramatic connotation. Here they die not only from injuries and fatigue, but often because of the conceited indifference of others.
A simple example: in 1996, a group of Japanese climbers stumbled upon three freezing Indian colleagues while climbing. The Japanese went further to the top, all the Indians died. In 1998, rock climber Sergey Arsentyev and his wife, American Francis, made an oxygen-free climb to Everest, but the mountain did not let them go. The couple missed each other in a snowstorm, Sergei, in search of his wife, went missing, his body was found only a few years later. And Francis died on the descent for two days. Several groups walked by without any help. And only another married couple of the British interrupted their expedition in an attempt to save the dying. They could no longer do anything, and themselves, almost dying from the cold, returned back. A year later, the Woodhalls nevertheless made their ascent and saw a dead woman in the place where they had left her the last time. For the next 8 years, they saved money to return to Everest in order to bury Francis. After all, climbing a mountain is not cheap. Only for access to the mountain, the Chinese side charges $ 5,500 for a group of 20 people, Nepalese - about 70 thousand for a team of seven climbers.
Another tragedy of Everest shocked the whole world in the 2006th year. 42 people passed by David Sharpe dying without oxygen! One of them was the Discovery Channel television crew, who asked Sharpe a couple of questions, gave oxygen, and left one.
Climbing Mount Everest is the dream of many people, both experienced climbers and beginners. Some of them managed to accomplish this dangerous feat, while the rest so far are only inspired by their determination and firmness of character.
Mount Everest attracted many visitors and, unfortunately, took many lives on this dangerous path. Nevertheless, the thirst for adventure did not stop pulling, and today Mount Everest is still a big goal for many. In this article, we will talk about important points related to the highest mountain in the world.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, its height reaches 8848 meters above sea level. The first climbers to conquer this peak were New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his guide Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, who climbed it on May 29, 1953 at 11:30 a.m. Although the success of this venture is attributed to the whole group, Tenzing later admitted that it was Edmund Hillary who was the first to step on the top of this mountain!
Mount Everest is part of the Himalayan mountains, it is located between the Sagarmatha zone, Tibet, Nepal and China.
Mount Everest also has other names! In Tibet, it is known as the "Chomolungma" or "Qomolangma." The Chinese translated its name as "Shèngmǔ Fēng", but it is rarely used. Locals in Darjeeling call it “Deodungha,” which means “Holy Mountain.”
Although Mount Everest is known as the highest peak above sea level, in fact, there are other high mountains on Earth. If measured from the foot, the highest mountain is considered to be the volcano Mauna Kea, located on the Hawaiian Islands. Its height from the base is 10,200 m, however, it rises above sea level only by 4205 m.
There are two important routes leading to the top of Mount Everest. One such route runs along the southeast ridge from Nepal, and the other along the northeast ridge from Tibet. The first of these is believed to be relatively easier to climb. In addition to these routes, there are others that are not used as often.
In addition, on August 20, 1980, Reinhold Messner made the first solo climb to the top of Mount Everest. This time he used a rather difficult route passing through the northwest side.
In 2007, the Australian climber Christian Stangi managed to make the fastest climb to Mount Everest. He climbed the summit along the northeast ridge.
Many daredevils were destined to die on the way to conquering the highest peak in the world. Many factors could have affected this, including lack of oxygen, extreme weather conditions, exhaustion, frostbite, etc. Only in 1996, when trying to climb the top of Mount Everest, at least 15 people died.
But, despite the consequences, only a few of those who wish can resist the attempt to try their hand at such a dangerous business. In this article, we only slightly touched on those enormous difficulties that face people who risked going beyond the bounds of the possible.
