Most people would not imagine how challenging survival is at high-altitude, without even counting on the huge physical exhaustion from climbing and some always-possible medical pre-conditions.

To illustrate this, I offer you to check these videos showing some obvious effects of hypoxia (lack of oxygen), from mildly funndy to life-threatening. And external source of oxygen is mostly insufficient in 8000+m climbing.

No. It’s the highest point on Earth and it is 29,029-feet high.

Do you see what it really means? This is too high to easily recognize. So, Richard Johnson, Bonnie Berkowitz, and Lazaro Gamio provided a web page with a long graphical representation of this height. You can visit at Scaling Everest. This will slowly open your mind to the perception of new heights.

When you’re finished scaling the huge peak, you can actually fly to its summit in the following NatGeo video:

Breathtaking is the word.

Sources: GeekPress & Beyond the Edge.

You can simply spend hours exploring the rocks, the ice of the glaciers or look for the expeditions climbing Mount Everest (the very first ones are still far from the summit). And you will also discover that traffic jams occur even at the top of the world…

Its Nepalese name is Sagarmāthā (Nepali: सगरमाथा), and it is very near to the Lhotse, another 8000-summit (precisely 8516m or 27940ft).

The image here was taken from the pilot seat when we were at the nearest point to the Everest during the flight (click on the small image to enlarge it).

The unlabeled peak on the right is probably the Makalu (8463m or 27766ft). But this needs to be confirmed by somebody more expert than I am.