The Hillary Step

Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Summit, a fascinating level and the risks involved to make the snow covered it is a challenging task for all climbers from around the world. Mountaineering is one of the most dangerous and fantastic sport that tests your patience and endurance.

Many mountaineers from around the world have tried to climb this imposing peak. Some have failed, while others climbed successfully and all the dangers and defeatedTo put obstacles in the road. These men and women have their own proud nation and have emerged victorious and are considered heroes.

The Hillary Step is a mass of vertical cliff some forty feet high. To get there, you must use the Southeast Ridge route on the Nepalese side to climb Mount Everest. The Hillary Step is about 28 840 meters above sea level, between the South Summit and the true summit. And 'the last great obstacle before reachingBeginning of the world.

Hillary is clearly the pace after the famous Sir Edmund Hillary, the first and most important rock-climbing and the scale has been called. He did it in 1953 with his climbing partner Tenzing Norgay. Both are very hard work, but were rising this barrier, which was so successful there. She then went to the first man to reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Today you are on the Hillary step and go down through the useropes to the mountain have been corrected. This, however, makes it even easier to climb. With great drops precariously on both sides is a place where you can not afford to make mistakes. One false move and your life is at stake. One of the dangers of the Hillary Step is for other climbers uphill or downhill awaits. There is only one way up and down and all going the same route. The waiting time could lead to cold for you, justof oxygen, too much time lost and for this reason, we can also give up their own summit bid.

Everyone faces the Hillary Step, climbers on the ropes help but imagine that in the year 1953, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay standing at the base for the first time. There was no ropes to help them first. Hillary had a few more that his hands, climbing, strength and determination, how to use this piece of stone stairs. He did it with a safe place for the protection of Tenzingbelow.

After this step, it was nice to get powerful rock with success, there are no other major hazard in the way that the first summit of Mount Everest.