Everest: Life in the Death Zone

Mount Everest stands at 29,032 feet tall. To put that in perspective, if you stacked 20 Empire State Buildings

on top of each other, you'd still be short by 4,000 feet. The mountain is so massive that

commercial airplanes fly lower than its peak. Climbers face temperatures dropping to minus

40 degrees and oxygen levels at just one third of sea level. Your body literally starts dying above

26,000 feet in what's called the death zone. The summit is so high that Earth's

jet stream winds constantly blast across it at over 200 miles per hour, making it one of

the most hostile places on our planet. --- **Visual Style Notes:** - Bright,

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