Highest mountain in Asia and all over the world – Mount Everest – 8,848 m

Mount Everest, also called Chomolungma, is situated in Nepal near the border to China. Like the whole range of the Himalaya, Mount Everest resulted from the continental drift through the clash of the Indian plate with the plate of Eurasia. The climatic conditions on top of the mountain, which is named after the British surveyer Sir Georg Everest, are extreme: temperatures drop to -60° C, heavy storms and snow falls with about 3 m/day are not that out of the ordinary. The first ascent succeeded in 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top of the world.

First conquering:
Sir Edmund Hillary (Neuseeland), Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) on Mai 29th 1953 
 
Successful climbs: 3.680
 
First woman on the top:
Junko Tabei (Japan) , Mai 16th 1975
 
First conquer of the peak without an oxygen mask: 
Peter Habeler (Austria) und Reinhold Messner (Italy), on May 8 th 1978, 1980 (without oxygen mask)
 
Fastest run up the mountain: 
Sherpa Pemba Dorjee, from base camp to the top in  8h:10 min.
Christian Stangl, from base camp to the top (northern route) in 16 h, 42 min.(2006)
 
Longest stand on the top:
Babu Chiri Sherpa (Nepal), 21 hours, 30 min. (1999)
 
Youngest conquerer of the peak: 
Temba Tsheri (Nepal), May 22nd 2001, at the age of 15
 
Oldest conquerer of the peak:
Yuichiro Miura (Japan),  May  2003 at the age of 70.
 
Fatalities: 208
 
Biggest crowd on top of the world:
155 people in May 22nd ,2003
 
Austrian´s on the Top 

1. Horst Bergmann: 03.05.1978
2. Wolfgang Nairz: 03.05.1978
3. Robert Schauer: 03.05.1978 / 23.05.1996 / 17.05.2004
4. Peter Habeler: 08.05.1978
5. Oswald Ölz: 11-05.1978
6. Franz Oppurg: 14.05.1978
7. Kurt Diemberger: 15.10.1978
8. Sepp Hinding: 14.05.1995
9. Heinz Rockenbauer: 26.05.1998
10. Theo Fritsche: 22.05.2001
11. Stefan Gatt: 22.05.2001
12. Erich Gatt: 23.05.2001
13. Wolfgang Fasching: 23.05.2001
14. Fritz Klausner: 17.05.2004
15. Paul Koller: 17.05.2004
16. Markus Noichl: 17.05.2004
17. Gerfried Göschl: 01.06.2005
18. Johann Goger: 02.06.2005
19. Walter Laserer: 18.05.2006
20. Gerhard Winkler: 20.05.2006
21. Christian Stangl: 25.05.2006
22. Herbert Wolf: 21.05.2007

(Stand: Februar 2008)