The Ascent of Everest

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Over the 2022 season, a total of 690 people summitted Everest (640 from the south (240 members, 400 sherpas), 50 from the north), and three people died. Hunt planned for three assaults of two climbers each, including "a third and last attempt" if necessary after a delay of some days. May 21 – Arkhom Kijwanichprasert, became the second Thai to reach the summit and the first Thai who got to the summit from North Ridge route on Tibetan side.

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On May 14, a Eurocopter AS-350 B3 helicopter flew and landed on the summit for the first time, repeating the feat the next day. Twenty-five-year-old Nepalese Sherpa Pemba Dorji made the world's fastest ascent in 12 hours 45 minutes on May 23.Both Russian and Chinese authorities have consistently denied that such an attempt took place; no physical evidence has ever been found to confirm its existence, nor is there any record of a person named Pavel Datschnolian. He was part of the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition along with fellow mountaineer Erwin "Pastor" Emata, who reached the summit the following day, May 18. The third British expedition was led by Brigadier-General Charles Bruce, although becoming indisposed as a result of a flare-up of malaria, he relinquished leadership of the expedition to Lt-Col. Other documented local names include "Deodungha" ("Holy Mountain"), but it is unclear whether it is commonly used. In 1979, climber Wang Hongbao of China revealed to the climbing leader of a Japanese expedition that in 1975, while taking a stroll from his bivouac he had discovered "an English dead" at 8100m, roughly below the site of Irvine's ice axe discovered in 1933 near the NE Ridge.

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On May 17, first traverse by three women, Noelle Wenceslao, Carina Dayondon, and Janet Belarmino (Filipina) coming North Side, Tibet and going down in South Side, Nepal. Waugh argued that because there were many local names, it would be difficult to favour one name over all others; he decided that Peak XV should be named after British surveyor Sir George Everest, his predecessor as Surveyor General of India. After about six months he began to equivocate on which Step it was he saw them—from the Second to possibly the First. October 16, 1978, Wanda Rutkiewicz became the third woman, the first Pole and the first European woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. On June 8, Mallory and Irvine left their high camp (C-6 at 26,900-ft) to attempt the summit, using Irvine's modified oxygen apparatus.Marc Batard completed the southeast route ascent without supplementary oxygen in the record time of 22h 30min from Base Camp to summit. Controversy has raged in the mountaineering community whether one or both of them reached the summit 29years before the confirmed ascent and safe descent of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. They became the first mother/daughter duo to complete the "Seven Summits" challenge, climbing the highest peak of every continent. The summitters of the 1953 British expedition were not British but a New Zealander and a Sherpa, though Hillary said that in the early 1950s, like most New Zealanders, he felt "British first, New Zealand second".

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Sharon Wood reaches the summit on May 20 thus becoming the first woman from North America and Canada to reach the top. In 1950, Bill Tilman and a small party which included Charles Houston, Oscar Houston, and Betsy Cowles undertook an exploratory expedition to Everest through Nepal along the route which has now become the standard approach to Everest from the south. On May 6, Nepali woman Lhakpa Sherpa summits for the 6th time breaking her own record for most successful summits by any woman.

Coincidentally, a new weather station was installed on the south face of Everest as well, at roughly the same altitude as the highest-altitude Chinese weather station, to replace another weather station on the Nepalese side which broke down in January 2020 - neither expedition was aware of each other until after the stations were installed.

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In 1849, Waugh dispatched James Nicolson to the area, who made two observations from Jirol, 190km (120mi) away. A subsequent attempt by Eric Shipton and Frank Smythe followed the same route but Smythe, who pressed on alone when Shipton turned back because of illness, got no higher. On May 21, Krushnaa Patil summitted Everest via the South West Ridge, to become the youngest Indian person. Ming Kipa, 15, became the youngest woman to climb Everest (also becoming the youngest person from 2003 to 2010). A Chinese government-sponsored survey team with 24 members reached the peak on May 22 to anchor surveying equipment for the remeasurement of summit height.May 8 – Vladislav Terzyul, Vasily Kopytko and Vladimir Gorbach became the first Ukrainians to reach the summit. As the health of Raeburn broke down, Mallory assumed responsibility for most of the exploration to the north and east of the mountain. The first acknowledged Soviet expedition climbed a new route on the Southwest Face to the left of the Central Gully. The 70mm IMAX camera was specially modified to be lightweight enough to carry up the mountain, and to function in the extreme cold with the use of particular greases on the mechanical parts, plastic bearings and special batteries. Laura Mallory Youngest Female Canadian to climb Mount Everest in May 2008 with her Father and two brothers.