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The bottom there is 10,924 meters (35,840 feet) below sea level. If Mount Everest, the highest mountain on Earth, were placed at this location it would be covered by over one mile of water.
They had hoped to take the samples while at the very top of Everest but conditions were too severe with temperatures at minus 25 degrees and winds of more than 20 knots. Having descended a short distance from the summit, the doctors took the samples at 8,400 metres above sea-level.