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What do mountaineers eat and drink on the day of an Everest summit?
Hot soup mostly, it does depend on the individual diets of the climbers, not everybody eats the same thing, but most carry hot soup with them.
Despite the massive amounts of energy needed to summit ...
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Can I expect to visit Camp 1 and beyond on an Everest base camp expedition?
No one is allowed to just show up at base camp and expect to be able to advance to any of the other camps.
First of all, there is a lot of paperwork that must be completed before you're even granted ...
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What do mountaineers eat and drink on the day of an Everest summit?
In 1996, they seemed to enjoy chocolate bars and candies.
From some of the accounts of the infamous 1996 season related by the 2015 movie, apart for the classic soup, tea and fluids, we can consider "...
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Can you get burned by boiling water on everest?
Yes boiling water at 70oC will burn you.
The above chart is for hot water heater settings and burn/scalding. As you can see from the graph being exposed to 70o C water for about half a second is ...
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What do mountaineers eat and drink on the day of an Everest summit?
Lemon juice and tinned fruit
From Tenzing's autobiography Man of Everest
We started pitching the highest camp that has ever been made. And it
took us almost until it was dark. First we chopped ...
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Why do Everest climbers go up, down and up again, instead of acclimatizing by simply staying in a camp longer?
Basically what happens is that the body needs some time to start producing more red blood cells. If you stay at the higher level your body can't cope with the acute lack of oxygen and as a result you ...
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What do mountaineers eat and drink on the day of an Everest summit?
It has to go down to all the High-Altitude diets, and not just specific to Mt. Everest.
Anywhere above 23,000 feet / 7,000 meters most of the mountaineers lose their appetite to a considerable level. ...
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What easy 6,500m peaks would serve as easy qualifiers for Everest?
Well, I'll share a list of peaks that are open and people do in India.
Uttarakhand state:
Panvali Dwaar (6663 m) - Song(RH) - Khati - Dwalio - Phukia - Base Camp - C - I,C - II and summit (Long: ...
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Fitness for hiking to Everest base camp
I assume you're talking about the south base camp in Nepal, which is the more popular destination. The typical route gains about 8000 feet over 40+ miles, which is really quite gentle, although the ...
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Bottled Oxygen on Everest
The first reason is weight, you can hardly carry yourself up Everest let alone extra oxygen bottles, in fact as soon as they empty a bottle a lot of people drop it on the ground as litter because they ...
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Fitness for hiking to Everest base camp
While Patrick's answer here clears many of the points, I would like to make up a few points about warm-up routines and acclimatization.
A few points may sound very specific to you and not really ...
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What happens when someone dies on Mount Everest?
The answer is yes. But not for everyone.
The first two people on record to die on Everest were George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. There's speculation that they may have even summited the Mountain, ...
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What easy 6,500m peaks would serve as easy qualifiers for Everest?
Lenin Peak is another likely candidate.
Just quoting from the wiki page (that looks heavily copied from summitpost).
It is considered one of the easiest 7,000 m peaks in the world to
climb and it ...
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Is there really no way to rescue a climber from the death zone?
The problem with rescuing someone in the death zone is, well, that it is the death zone. Supplemental oxygen helps, but the decreased pressure is also problematic. If you are injured or sick, you are ...
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Why do Everest climbers go up, down and up again, instead of acclimatizing by simply staying in a camp longer?
Acclimatization is like training a muscle. You create a stimulus and recover. If you stay at a high altitude, your recovery will be limited and acclimatization will be slow.
Note that while this is ...
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Can you boil water on top of Everest?
The short answer to your question is yes you can get a stove to light and cook your egg on the top of Everest if you really wanted to do it.
Backpacking stoves are pressurized
All of the backpacking ...
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What consequences would someone face who attempted to summit Everest on their own?
Trekking =! climbing. You wouldn't make it unless you have significant climbing experience.
First off without climbing experience and high altitude climbing experience (over 5000 m) you have almost ...
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Can you boil water on top of Everest?
For butane/isobutane/propane canisters, the stove design, affecting the temperature in the canister or liquid feed pipe, and the boiling point of the gas mixture would matter. At very low temperatures ...
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Training to Circumambulate Around Mount Kailash
You have a wonderful goal! It is good that you understand it can take time to work up to this trip. I recommend that you think in terms of several years, not decades, because (a) after 50, most ...
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How come there's a camp in the "Death Zone" on Mount Everest's north route?
To quote Wikipedia's article on the Death Zone:
In mountaineering, the death zone refers to altitudes above a certain point where the pressure of oxygen is insufficient to sustain human life for an ...
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Is there really no way to rescue a climber from the death zone?
This sort of hard decision happens at lower elevations. In some ways harder: The Death Zone scenarios obliges you to abandon the victim to save the rest of the party. At lower elevations it's often ...
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Is there really no way to rescue a climber from the death zone?
Assuming weather conditions were perfect, and the condition you were treating was mostly oedema, then a hot air balloon with a hyperbaric chamber may be possible.
However, conditions are rarely ...
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Training to Circumambulate Around Mount Kailash
According to this webpage, the trail starts at 15,000 feet and includes a 18,000 ft pass. My recommendation would be to do some aerobic exercises, to prepare for the lower oxygen levels. I sure that ...
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Was Alison Hargreaves the second person to summit Mt. Everest without supplemental oxygen and without support?
NO, she wasn't even close to 2nd. From 1978 to 1995 is 17 years!!! Plenty of others.
"On this date, Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler were the first to climb to the top of Mount Everest without ...
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Is there really no way to rescue a climber from the death zone?
If you can get to the person, a rescue operation is 90% done. A danger zone is a danger zone because spotting someone is often impossible, let alone getting near them.
I never heard of anyone passing ...
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What happens when someone dies on Mount Everest?
I figured you would have probably found out the answer by now but in case you didn't here it is.
Yes. They found his body shortly after he died. IMAX was filming a documentary on Everest and two ...
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What consequences would someone face who attempted to summit Everest on their own?
If :
you are sufficiently acclimatized from elsewhere (for example, you very recently did another 8000m peak) and
you have the right gear and food, and
you are sufficiently trained to climb solo ...
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