Does the top of Mount Everest belong to China? Why can so many foreigners climb up?

On June 8, 2020, 65438+February 8, more than half a year after the China Everest Survey Team reached the summit, China and Nepal announced that the latest height of the snow surface elevation of Mount Everest was 8848.86 meters. You may think, isn't Mount Everest our territory? Why do you want to announce with Nepal why climbers all over the world can climb from Nepal to the top of Mount Everest in China?

Whose is the peak of Mount Everest?

According to the Border Treaty between People's Republic of China (PRC) and Nepal signed on 196 1, 10/0/5, the direction of the border between the two countries is "Mount Qomolangma (Sagamata) and Mount Lozi", with China territory in the north and Nepal territory in the south. But this is a bit ambiguous, and of course the division of peaks is also very accurate!

The southern part of the summit belongs to Nepal and the northern part to China. Anyone who climbs Mount Everest from the northern slope must obtain the approval of the China government and notify the Nepalese government; Climbers from the southern slope must obtain the approval of the Nigerian government and notify the government of China. If China or Nepal wants to establish a scientific exploration station for peaceful purposes at the summit, it is necessary for the two governments to reach a responsive agreement.

It seems that the border treaty of 196 1 10 is so easy to reach, but in fact, even the border treaty between China and Nepal is still full of all kinds of tensions, because China and Nepal fought several wars for the ownership of Mount Everest long before the border treaty was reached!

According to the imperial panorama drawn by the Qing government in the 57th year of Kangxi, Mount Qomolangma is all in China, which belongs to the territory of China, while Nepal is on the border of Nepal according to the map drawn by Britain in the middle of19th century, so China proposed at that time that Mount Qomolangma should be separated from the summit, because it has extraordinary symbolic significance for both countries!

Color coding of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas1height above 600 meters

Fair advice, isn't it? However, this proposal was mercilessly laughed at. "China people have never even reached the top of Mount Everest, so what is the reason to make this suggestion?" Because1May 29th, 953, Nepalese climbers climbed Mount Everest from the south slope, so they have the capital to laugh at us China people!

1858 drawings measured by British Indian Survey Bureau

Therefore, the summit of Mount Qomolangma has become an important basis for China to delimit the boundary of Mount Qomolangma!

China climbed Mount Everest for the first time.

There are actually several routes to the summit of Mount Everest, but they are all located on the southern slope of Nepal. As a mountaineering team of demarcation origin, it is always impossible to go to the top of Nepal, and Nepal will not agree!

Beifeng route

Therefore, for inexperienced young climbers, it is undoubtedly impossible for the China mountaineering team, which was established only two years ago, to climb the summit from the northern slope with devil's difficulty. This is the evaluation of China's climbing Mount Everest by foreign mountaineering circles at that time!

1960 the China mountaineering team passed the flannel glacier.

Finally, the young China mountaineering team overcame all difficulties and reached the top of the North Slope on May 25th 1960. Please remember the names of four people, namely Wang Fuzhou, Qu, Kampot and Liu Lianman, who created the feat of climbing the world's highest peak from the northern slope for the first time in human history.

Behind this feat, it is almost a sacrifice. At that time, the equipment conditions were very limited and there were few supply points. In the final assault on the summit, Liu Lianman was exhausted and couldn't walk any further. He should be the one who needs oxygen most. He left oxygen for his teammates to prepare for the return trip, leaving a suicide note to meet his death alone, but in the end he survived because of his strong willpower!

Among the top players, Qu took off his boots when climbing the ladder to protect his teammates. As a result, his toes and heels were frozen in just a few minutes. Behind their four summit members, there are other team members' efforts. For example, when team member Pubu measures gravity data at a distance of 1900 meters from the top of Mount Everest, it is inconvenient to take off his gloves and insist on measuring gravity data. Finally, the fingers were frostbitten and necrotic, and they were forced to amputate!

The Everest data measured by the three warriors who reached the summit finally took the initiative in the Sino-Nepalese border negotiations, and the final demarcation of Mount Everest is what you see now.

Further reading: the road sign of Mount Everest's corpse

Since the commercial climbing of Mount Everest was opened at the end of last century, more and more people climb Mount Everest every year! Many friends will have a question, is it difficult to climb Mount Everest? Why are more and more people reaching the top?

In fact, this is the result of commercial mountaineering. As long as you are willing to spend money, then as long as you pay, everything else is done by commercial mountaineering logistics. Is everything easier to prepare than the mountaineering team? Of course, relative mountaineering training is still necessary, but it is much easier than mountaineering half a century ago!

However, this leads to a result. More and more people apply to climb Mount Everest every year, and all of them are concentrated in April-May. In the second half of the year, there is another time in June, 5438+ 10, which is why the 20 19 Everest congestion incident occurred. Although these are the two best weather periods in a year, the climate of Mount Everest is still changing rapidly. If there is a snowstorm during the congestion, it is estimated that half of the people will be hanged.

Of course, every climber who died on the way to the top of Mount Everest has his own tragic story, but it is nothing more than bad weather, fatigue, complications, accidents and other events, but none of them are innocent, because climbers have chosen this road, and there must be this day. The only difference is where!

Height distribution of Everest's corpse

The famous Everest corpse green boots.

Therefore, a large number of climbers who died on Mount Everest for various reasons have formed signposts leading to the summit of Mount Everest, and because of the height of Mount Everest, these bodies cannot be brought back to the foot of the mountain, so there are still hundreds of bodies on Mount Everest so far, forming the most unique scenery of Mount Everest: corpse signposts!