This document provides information about climbing Mount Everest. It discusses that this week's trip is to Asia, specifically Nepal, to climb Mount Everest. Key facts provided include that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world at 8,848 meters tall and on the border of Nepal and China. It takes approximately 40 days and passing through 4 camps to reach the summit, or top of the mountain.

1. WHERE IS MRS.
WAFFENSCHMIDT?

2. LET’S REVIEW!
North
America
South
America
Africa
Europe Asia
Australia
Antarctica

3. LAST TIME, WHERE DID WE GO?
• CONTINENT?
• EUROPE
• COUNTRY?
• ITALY
• CITY?
• ROME

5. THIS WEEK, WE ARE GOING…
• CONTINENT?
• ASIA
• COUNTRY?
• NEPAL

7. FACTS
• MOUNT EVEREST CAN BE WRITTEN AS MT. EVEREST, TOO! IT’S JUST
SHORTER!
• MT. EVEREST IS THE TALLEST MOUNTAIN IN THE WORLD. IT EVEN
GETS BIGGER EACH YEAR!
• MT. EVEREST ISN’T IN A CITY, AND IT’S QUITE HARD TO GET TO.
• IT’S RIGHT ON THE BORDER BETWEEN NEPAL AND CHINA.

8. • 8848 METERS TALL
• THERE ARE 4 CAMPS
BEFORE THE TOP.
• THE TOP OF THE
MOUNTAIN IS CALLED
“THE SUMMIT”
• IT TAKES 40 DAYS
TO GET TO THE TOP!

9. TEMPERATURE
• THE TEMPERATURE CAN BE -62C!
• THE ROCKY SUMMIT IS COVERED WITH SNOW ALL YEAR!
• THE JET STREAM SITS ON TOP OF EVEREST ALMOST ALL YEAR LONG, WHICH CAN
BLOW WIND FASTER THAN 322 KM/HR!
• IN MAY EACH YEAR, THE JET STREAM MOVES NORTH CAUSING THE WINDS TO
CALM AND TEMPERATURES TO WARM ENOUGH FOR PEOPLE TO TRY TO HIKE.
THIS IS CALLED THE 'SUMMIT WINDOW'. THERE IS A SIMILAR PERIOD EACH FALL
IN NOVEMBER.
• IT CAN ALSO BE VERY HOT WITH TEMPERATURES OVER 100F IN THE WESTERN
CWM (KOOM), AN AREA CLIMBERS GO THROUGH TO REACH THE SUMMIT.

10. NOT JUST EVEREST!
• JUST LIKE AYERS ROCK, MT. EVEREST HAS DIFFERENT NAMES BY THE NATIVE
PEOPLE.
• EVEREST IS CALLED CHOMOLUNGMA BY THE TIBETAN PEOPLE. IT MEANS
MOTHER GODDESS OF THE UNIVERSE
• EVEREST WAS NAMED SAGARMATHA BY THE NEPAL GOVERNMENT. IT MEANS
GODDESS OF THE SKY
• IN 1865, IT WAS NAMED MOUNT EVEREST, AFTER SIR GEORGE EVEREST, THE
MAN WHO LED THE FIRST TEAM

11. IT IS EXPENSIVE TO CLIMB MT.
EVEREST!
• IT COSTS $11,000 OR (11,000,000 WON) TO CLIMB THE MOUNTAIN.
• THE AVERAGE COST IS $65,000 (60,000,000 WON), BUT CAN BE AS EXPENSIVE
AS $100,000 (100,000,000 WON)

14. LET’S GO ON A HIKE!
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