Mount Everest notable "firsts" by climbers include: Summiting Everest with disabilities such as amputations and diseases has become popular in the 21st century, with stories like that of Sudarshan Gautam, a man with no arms who made it to the top in 2013. A teenager with Down's syndrome made it to Base camp, which has become a substitute for more extreme record-breaking because it carries many of the same thrills including the trip to the Himalayas and rustic scenery. Danger lurks even at base camp though, which was the site where dozens were killed in the 2015 Mount Everest avalanches. Others that
Mount Everest of his surname ( ). The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is (, "Holy Mother"), whose official Tibetan pinyin form is "Qomolangma". It is also popularly romanised as "Chomolungma" and (in Wylie) as "Jo-mo-glang-ma" or "Jomo Langma". The official Chinese transcription is whose pinyin form is "Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng". It is also infrequently simply translated into Chinese as "Shèngmǔ Fēng" "Holy Mother Peak"). In 2002, the Chinese "People's Daily" newspaper published an article making a case against the use of "Mount Everest" in English, insisting that the mountain should be referred to as Mount "Qomolangma", based on the official form of