The Hillary Step, which is located at an elevation of 28,839 feet, was a near-vertical rock outcropping 200 feet below Everest's summit. It has long been one of the most foreboding obstacles on Windsor first saw Jimmy on "the Balcony" of Everest, a place Windsor described as a "cold windswept snow shelf high up on the southeast ridge" of the mountain. The Balcony is 8,200 meters (more The highest point on Earth is the summit of Mount Everest, which lies at an elevation of 29,032 feet (8,849 meters). The mountain is shaped like a three-sided pyramid. The three generally flat planes that make up the sides are called faces. The summit reaches some 5.5 miles (8.8 kilometers) above sea level to heights where oxygen is thin. They presented the cases of two climbers who had to bivouac above 8,500 m on descent from Everest in extreme conditions: the first experienced air pressure of 333 hPa, air temperature of -31°C and wind speed of 15 m⋅s -1; the second 338 hPa, -23°C, and 2 m⋅s -1. The first climber died but the second survived. Name The name "Mount Everest" was first proposed in this 1856 speech, later published in 1857, in which the mountain was first confirmed as the world's highest. The Tibetan name for Everest is Qomolangma ( ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, lit. "Holy Mother"). Soaring 8,612 meters (28,253 feet) into the sky, K2 is a mountain in the Karakoram Range that crosses the border of China and Pakistan. As the second-highest mountain in the world, trailing only Mt. Everest (8,848 meters), many people assume that the name K2 is due to its silver-medal standing. However, those people are wrong. Everest stands on the border between China and Nepal. China says it will set up a "line of separation" at the summit of Mount Everest in order to prevent climbers mingling with others from Nepal. Following is a transcript of the video. Vanessa O'Brien: 26,000 feet or 8,000 meters, they do call the "death zone." The death zone is, you know, a part of what happens at height in the mountain Mountain voices. At extreme altitudes, mountaineers often mention experiencing psychosis — that is, a mental disorder where a person becomes out of touch with reality. Symptoms of psychotic O n 18 April 2014, a 14,000-tonne block of ice slid down the southern face of Mount Everest, killing 16 people. It was the mountain's deadliest day, until just over a year later, when 22 died in lIj8Y.