Get your first KiwiCo box free by clicking here! https://www→→Subscribe for new videos every day! https://www.youtube.com/user/TodayIFoundOut?sub_confirmation=1 Never run out of things to say at the water cooler with TodayIFoundOut! Brand new videos 7 days a week! In this video: Standing at a foreboding 8,848 metres (or 29,029 feet) high, Mount Everest is recognised as the Earth’s highest mountain. While Everest isn’t generally considered to be the most difficult peak to climb (that honor probably belongs to either Annapurna in Nepal or K2 on the China/Pakistan border), it is the most famous and, as such, sees the most people attempting to scale it each year. Want the text version?: http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2016/08/can-anyone-climb-everest/ Sources: http://www.mounteverest.net/expguide/permit.htm http://www.alanarnette.com/blog/2015/12/21/everest-2016-how-much-does-cost-to-climb-mount-everest/ http://www.livescience.com/32851-do-not-post-why-does-a-permit-to-climb-mt-everest-cost-70000.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/feb/14/nepal-slashes-cost-climbing-mount-everest http://www.reuters.com/article/us-nepal-everest-idUSKCN0YG0CE https://adventure-journal.com/2012/06/the-list-the-deadliest-mountains-in-the-universe/ http://motherboard.vice.com/read/when-the-internet-came-to-everest http://www.mounteverest.net/expguide/route.htm http://blogs.dw.com/adventuresports/2014/10/20/well-under-drugs-is-half-way-up/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Everest http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/there-are-over-200-bodies-on-mount-everest-and-theyre-used-as-landmarks-146904416/?no-ist https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumbu_Icefall http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/mobile-phones/10161553/4G-coverage-on-Mount-Everest.html http://www.alpineascents.com/everest-faq.php http://www.mounteverest.net/expguide/accli.htm https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/apr/30/everest-climbers-sherpa-mob-attack https://en.wikipedia.or