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      Mount Everest by the Numbers: Deaths, Cost to Climb, and More Mountain Records

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      From the cost to climb to the number of people who have died in 2012, The Daily Beast breaks down the numbers of the world’s tallest mountain.

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      Updated Sep. 28, 2018 4:04PM ET / Published May. 21, 2012 7:16PM ET 

      Kenji Kondo / AP Photo

      8,848 meters (29,029 feet): Height at the peak.

      60 million years: Approximate age of Mount Everest.

      $25,000: Cost of a climbing permit per person.

      8,000: Height in meters (approximately 26,000 feet) at Mount Everest’s “death zone,” the low-oxygen area above the last camp and before the summit where conditions become increasingly harsh.

      1953: The year Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became the first recorded climbers to reach Everest’s summit.

      3: Number of countries visible from the summit (Tibet, India, and Nepal).

      6: Number of people who have died on the mountain in 2012.

      19: Number of people who died in one year—1996, the deadliest ever on Mount Everest—during a trek chronicled by writer Jon Krakauer in Into Thin Air.

      30: Number of minutes before a climber dies after contracting hypothermia on Mount Everest, depending on how fast his or her body temperature drops

      40: Record number of people to successfully reach Everest’s summit in one day (May 10, 1993).

      200: Approximate number of total climbers who have died on the peak’s treacherous slopes.

      4,000: Approximate number of people who have climbed Mount Everest since Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

      13: Age of Jordan Romero, the youngest climber to reach the summit, in May 2010.

      76: Age of the oldest climber to reach the summit, Min Bahadur Sherchan, in May 2008.

      21: Record number of successful climbs to the summit by Apa Sherpa.

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