Nuptse Essays

  • Mount Everest Research Paper

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    Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world. It is at a height of 29,029ft. One man named Yuichiro Miura was 80 years old when he climbed to the summit of the mountain. He is a man that started out his life during WWll. he grew up in the snowy mountains in the northern Hokkaido. They luckily survived the war and, in his father’s footsteps, he became a professional skier. He set a world record for the fastest speed while skiing at one hundred miles per hour, but held that record for only one day