Cosmonaut Photos: Mount Everest & The Himalayas | International Space Station
Expedition 74 commander and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey-Kud Sverchkov of Russia: "Yes, because it exists!"
"That's how George Mallory answered the question of why people climb Everest. And it seems nothing has changed in a hundred years."
"Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, at 8,848.86 meters. A Himalayan giant on the border of Nepal and Tibet, the peak has become a symbol of the limits of human possibility."
For local people, the mountain has always been Chomolungma—'Divine Mother of the World' in Tibetan. In Nepal, it is called Sagarmatha—'Forehead of Heaven.' The name 'Everest' was coined in the 19th century in honor of British surveyor George Everest after the Great Trigonometric Survey of India.
The first attempts to climb it began in the 1920s. 73 years ago, on May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay made the first official ascent. There are approximately 20 routes to the summit, although two remain the main ones: the southern route through Nepal and the northern route through Tibet.
Today, Everest is considered an 'accessible' eight-thousander technically, thanks to commercial expeditions, fixed ropes, and a large number of routes. But the altitude here remains unforgiving."
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Sergei Mikaev
An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Release Date: May 29, 2026
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