Arlene Blum

Arlene Blum - First American Woman to Attempt Mt. Everest

Arlene Blum is a mountain climber who led the first women teams to successfully climb Mt. McKinley and Annapurna, and she was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest.

Arlene Blum Biography

Arlene Blum (born 1945) is an American mountaineer. She is best known for her all-woman ascent of Annapurna (I), a climb that was also the first successful American ascent. She also was a deputy leader of the first all-woman ascent of Mount McKinley and was the first woman to attempt to ascend Mount Everest.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest (Behind Left), Mount Lhotse (Front Right) and and the Lhotse Wall

About Mt. Everest

Mount Everest, also called Sagarmatha ( meaning Head of the Sky) or Chomolungma, Qomolangma or Zhumulangma (in , in Chinese: ????? Zh?mùl?ngm? F?ng) is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level, which is . The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China.

In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India established the first published height of Everest at , although at the time Everest was known as Peak XV. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon recommendation of Andrew Waugh, the British Category: :Category - :Surveyors General of India|Surveyor General of India at the time. Waugh was unable to propose an established local name because Nepal and Tibet were closed to foreigners at the time, although Chomolungma had been in common use by Tibetans for centuries.

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Mt. Everest Facts

Elevation - 29,035

First Successful Ascent - May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay

First Successful Ascent by a Woman - May 16,1975 by Junko Tabei of Japan

Tibetan name for Everest - Chomolungma

Nepalese name for Everest - Sagarmatha

Olympic Torch on Mt. Everest

Another woman reaches the summit of Everest along with the famed torch

In May 2008, Chinese mountaineers took the Olympic torch where it had never been before - to the peak of the world's highest mountain.

Among the 19 climbers was a Tibetan woman named Cering Wangmo, who held the torch when the team reached the summit. Other team members unfurled Chinese and Olympic flags.