The final year of the year in our ninth-grade English classes is on Mount Everest. I thought it would be useful to our school’s teachers and to this blog’s readers (and to me!) to try to compile the best related online resources into one list.

Here are my choices for The Best Sites For Learning About Mount Everest:

I’ll start off with several Everest-related assignments we have on our class blog.

How Stuff Works has quite a few great short videos.

National Geographic has an Everest site, including this video:

PBS has a site on Everest, bringing together all their related resources.

Scholastic has an Everest site.

PBS has an interactive on outfitting a climber.

Here’s a panorama taken from the summit.

The Discovery Channel has an Everest interactive.

You can climb Everest virtually with this “SherpaCam.”

Take a brain test scientists have given Everest climbers to see what affect climbing has on them.

Experience Everest at this Discovery Channel interactive.

Here’s a nice video that shows a typical climbing route and the importance of acclimatizing (going back and forth to get one’s body acclimated to the altitude):

Imaging Everest comes from The Royal Geographic Society.

Check-out Storm Over Everest.

You can Experience Everest with this game.

Here are some simple Everest games.

Here are some videos from the summit:

Awesome Stories has a nice video about Everest climber Edmund Hillary.

I’m also adding this preview, and the direct link, to Farther Than the Eye Can See, a film about blind climber Eric Weihenmayer’s renowned summit of Mt. Everest:

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TIME has a slideshow on Sir Edmund Hillary.

Here are several good videos from CNN, including ones on the first African to reach the summit and several on teenagers who have made the climb:

The Glass Ceiling is a movie about the first woman Sherpa to climb Mt. Everest. Here’s the movie trailer:

Early expeditions to Everest is an audio slideshow from the BBC.

Richard Byrne also suggests some good resources on his blog.

Feedback is welcome.

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