what is on the top of mount everest
Mount Everest The routes usually share one spot in common, the summit itself. The summit of Everest has been described as "the size of a dining room table".[269] The summit is capped with snow over ice over rock, and the layer of snow varies from year to year.[270] The rock summit is made of Ordovician limestone and is a low-grade metamorphic rock according to Montana State University.[271] (see survey section for more on its height and about the Everest rock summit)
Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE OSN (20 July 1919 â€“ 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.