North Side Features Index The Everest FAQ
The 10 most Frequently Asked Questions about expedition climbing on Everest answered by Everest summiter and international wiseguy Dave Hahn. Email the climbers your question.



From the Expedition Leader
"This uncertainty is part of what brings me back to Everest for a seventh expedition... It's not the feats people accomplish that fascinate me, it's the people that do the stuff. What were they thinking? What did they sacrifice to experience their adventure?..." —Eric Simonson



Multimedia
Streaming video and slide shows of everything from packing for an Everest expedition to what it's like in the cold and the wind of upper Everest.



The North Ridge Route
Eric Simonson gives the blow-by-blow description, with photos, of what it's like to climb Everest from the North.



Meet the Team
Get to know the hard-guy Himalayan veterans of the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition attempting the North Ridge route on Everest.



Gear on Everest
From high altitude tents and low altitude tents to long underwear and Pop Tarts, find out what you have to pack to climb Everest. Over three tons of stuff and not a natural fiber in the lot.



Interview with Eric Simonson
Audio, video, and text transcripts of expedition leader Eric Simonson's thoughts on his seventh expedition to Everest and its historical context of researching Mallory & Irvine.



Maps & Routes
See Tibet, the trek to Base Camp, and the North Ridge climbing route. Includes an Indiana Jones-like FLASH animated map with camps clickable to photo galleries of that part of the mountain.



Just The Facts
Stats, numbers, and names. How many have summited, how many died, who climbed it how and who did it first. How cold is cold and how thin is thin air. All Everest, All The Time.



Mallory & Irvine
They climbed in 1924 wearing tweed coats and leather boots. They had wooden ice axes and canvas tents, and they got very high on the world's biggest mountain. Might they have summitted?



Tibetan Culture & Buddhism
"This was the land which previously I had only dreamed,the pastel colors of the chains of hills had captivated me." —Reinhold Messner



Lexicon
Climbing, buddhist, and Tibetan words and customs defined.



Glaciology on Everest
By studying the ancient glaciers of Everest, scientists are trying to learn about the long term patterns of the monsoon season which brings snow to the Himalayas.



Expedition Itinerary
Over hills and glaciers by truck and by yak; over fixed lines and rock steps to the rooftop of the world. The when's of what and where.



Expedition Sponsors
The companies that provided gear for the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition.