At 29,028 feet (8,848 meters), Mount Everest is the tallest mountain of the world. It is considered one of the most challenging mountains to climb.

Though it’s impossible to say how many people have reached Everest’s summit at any given time since the number changes every year over 3,100 climbers from over 20 countries had made over 5,100 recorded climbs between 2000 and 2011. As of 2012 there were over 220 recorded fatalities. Modern changes in climbing equipment led to a sharp drop in fatalities, from 37% in 1990 to about 4.4% in 2004.

This is a list of true champions who reached the top of Mount Everest:

The first officially recorded summit was accomplished by Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal) (29 May 1953).

The first woman to climb it was Junko Tabei, from Japan (1975).

Reinhold Messner (Italy) and Peter Habeler (Austria) were the first to climb it without supplemental oxygen (8 May 1978)

Min Bahadur Sherchan (Nepal), at 76, is the oldest person to summit the mountain (25 May 2008)

Tamae Watanabe (Japan), at 73, is the oldest woman to reach the top (19 May 2012)

Jordan Romero (USA), at 13, is the youngest person to summit the mountain (25 May 2010)

Erik Weihenmayer (USA), is the first blind climber to summit the mountain (25 May 2001). After that, he wrote a book called: ‘Blind to failure’

Apa Sherpa (Nepal)is the person who has made the most summits as of 2011, a total of 21 times.

Mona Mulepati and Pem Dorje Sherpa (Nepal) is the first couple to get married on top of Mt. Everest (30 May 2005). Because they belong to different caste they married without the consent of their parents!

(All this information I gathered it from different sites on the internet)

“Before the mountains were born…from everlasting to everlasting, You are God!” (Ps 90:2)