Mount Everest

1. Basic Information Card** 📍 **Location**: Spanning across China, India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Pakistan, with a total length of 2,400 km, equivalent to the straight-line distance from Beijing to Hainan! 📏 **Height of the King**: Mount Everest (8,848.86 meters, jointly measured by China and Nepal), the highest mountain in the world, "growing" by about 4 millimeters each year (plate tectonics)! 🌍 **Young Mountain Range**: Only 50 million years old (formed after the extinction of dinosaurs), still "growing"! 2. Natural Wonders and Fun Facts ❄️ **Super Refrigerator**: Over 15,000 glaciers, storing 10% of the world's freshwater, but melting at an accelerating rate (climate change warning)! 🔥 **Song of Ice and Fire**: The mountain range below is the battlefield where the Indian plate "subducts" the Eurasian plate, triggering earthquakes and creating peaks. 🌈 **Mysterious Light and Shadow**: Thin air and ice crystal refraction often create "Buddha's light" and "halo" and other fantastic celestial phenomena! 3. Dialogue Between Humans and the Divine Mountain 🙏 **Religious Site**: Tibetan Buddhism calls Mount Everest "Goddess" (Qomolangma = Mother of the Earth), and Hinduism regards it as the abode of Shiva. 🧗 **Mountaineering Legend**: In 1953, humans first climbed Mount Everest. Today, thousands of people challenge it every year, and "traffic jam to the top" has become a strange sight (costing over RMB 300,000). 🌱 **Habitat of Endangered Species**: Snow leopards, Tibetan antelopes, and Himalayan tahrs live here, all of which are critically endangered and difficult to capture even with drones! 4. Off-the-Beaten-Path Travel Experiences 🚁 **Fly Over Mount Everest**: Take off from Lukla Airport in Nepal (the world's most dangerous airport) and soar over the mountains. 📸 **Photography Paradise**: Dingri County in Tibet, Nagarkot in Nepal, capture the sunrise over the mountains and the Milky Way arch with your camera! ⚠️ **Safety Warning**: Altitude sickness and extreme weather conditions. Ordinary people should not easily challenge their limits! 5. Environmental Appeal 🗑️ **Mount Everest Garbage Crisis**: Oxygen cylinders, tents piled up like mountains. China's Tibet side has set up an "environmental checkpoint" and climbers must take back 8.5 kg of garbage! 🌱 **What You Can Do**: Reduce plastic use, pay attention to glacier protection, and cloud-guard this pure land!