Between 40 and 50 million years ago the tectonic plate that India is on started pushing into the plate that Europe and Asia are on. This caused the land to buckle forming the mountain range that Mt. Everest resides in. The whole mountain range is still growing today although it is too slow to observe.
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One of Mt. Everest's features is the Lhotse face. The Lhotse face is a strip of limestone that cuts through near Mt. Everest's peak. The limestone gives it a yellow color so it is also referred to as "The Yellow Band". It is part of the sedimentary rock that formed before the tectonic plate that it is on buckled and was under water. Because it was originally under the ocean you can find fossils of sea creatures in the Yellow Band.
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The first people to reach the top of Mt. Everest were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Although they might have been the second, because in 1924 George Mallory and Andrew Ivine disappeared near the summit along the northeast ridge. They might have actually been the first to reach the top but they never returned.
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