Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions the mountain's other side, the North Ridge, where several climbers also died, was detailed in a first hand account by British filmmaker and writer Matt Dickinson in his book "The Other Side of Everest". Vicky Jacks of Balquidder, Scotland, summited Everest in May 2004 aged 51yrs. At the time the oldest woman to have achieved this, and Scotland's first woman climber. Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. It is situated in the Himalayan range. The first British expedition—organized and financed by the newly
Mount Everest abandoned due to medical concerns. One reason for this was that a weather window opened up earlier than expected, but her body was not taking in enough oxygen. Everest has claimed perhaps 300 lives in the last century of expeditions on the mountain, often with little regard to a climber's skillit has claimed the careless and sometimes the careful as well. The weather window is a time, in modern times carefully watched with modern weather observation and prediction technology, to find the time of calm to avoid treacherously high winds which are known to reach 175 mph (280 kph). A