Mount Everest facts
1. The name “Everest” means “the highest point”. Mount Everest got its name after surveyors discovered it as the highest peak in the 1850s.
2. While at least 35,000 people visit Mount Everest every year to view the scenery and experience the climatic conditions around it, only about 5200 have managed to successfully climb to the summit and back down.
3. Due to the harsh weather conditions, altitude sickness, low oxygen levels, and fatigue, it takes about 10 weeks to climb Mount Everest. This is because of the frequent breaks that climbers take at each base to adapt to the high altitude before resuming climbing, as per the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). One break can take days or even weeks.
Can you believe we are half way through!? This is our first 100g skein in the advent!
Isn’t it stunning?! A gorgeous mix of blues, greys, ivory and browns to convey the mountain rocks and snow. That dye bath though!!
Soft changes of colour with vivid pops of blue and rusty browns make this colourway perfect… in my opinion! I mean…. scroll for the granny square!
I could look at this on all day! I hope I get to see Everest in my life time, but I doubt I’ll ever climb it! 😅 we can and squish this yarn instead!
Look at that collection! Yum.
So day 13 next… where will we go?!
Xxx Jess
hook and cwtch 