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Mount Everest (Chomolungma) - the highest peak of the Earth

According to official estimates, the height of Mount Everest is 8848 meters above sea level. The first to establish that Everest is the highest in the world mountain peak, was an Indian mathematician Radhanat Sikdar. This happened in 1852. At the top of Everest, the strongest winds blow, the speed of which can reach 200 kilometers per hour.

Taking into account acclimatization and setting up camps, climbing to the top of Chomolungma, on average, takes about two months. It is believed that the most difficult section to climb is the last 300 meters, which are nicknamed by successful climbers on Everest "the longest mile on Earth." The complexity of this section lies in the fact that a person needs to overcome a very steep and smooth stone slope, which is covered with fine slippery snow. In addition to the obvious dangers of mountaineering, the difficulties in climbing Everest also lie in the high rarefaction of the atmosphere; V low temperatures down to -60°C and in high solar radiation at altitudes.

Chimborazo is the point farthest from the center of the Earth.

Chimborazo is an inactive volcano located in mountain range Andes in Ecuador. The peak of Mount Chimborazo is at an altitude of 6267 meters, but since it is not a perfect sphere, but a geoid, the peak of Chimborazo is the farthest point from the center of the Earth. Despite being 2,580 meters lower than Everest, Chimborazo is still 2,168 kilometers farther from the center of the Earth than the highest point of Mount Everest. Until the early 19th century, Chimborazo was considered the highest peak on Earth.

Mauna Kea - the highest mountain, taking into account the foot located at the bottom of the ocean

Height Mauna Kea mountains, which is located on the island of Hawaii, is 4205 meters above sea level. However, most of this mountain is under water: if you take into account its height, taking into account the foot, which is located at the bottom of the ocean, the height of Mauna Kea is about 10 kilometers. In addition, due to the altitude and lack of light pollution in the area, Mauna Kea is one of the most the best places in the world for astronomical observations. There are 13 telescopes from 11 countries on the mountain.

The Mariana Trench is the deepest place on Earth

According to the latest research, deepest point The Mariana Trench, called the "Challenger Deep", is located at a depth of 10,994 meters. If you place the most high peak world - Everest - to the bottom of the Mariana Trench, then it will be covered with another two-kilometer layer of water. Mariana Trench located in the west Pacific Ocean next to the Marianas.

The Dead Sea coast is the lowest piece of land on Earth

Coast Dead Sea is located below sea level by 430 meters, which makes this place the lowest landmass on Earth. In addition, the Dead Sea is one of the saltiest lakes in the world - it is 9.6 times saltier than the ocean. This salinity creates harsh conditions in which plant and animal species familiar to us in the waters of the Dead Sea will not be able to thrive. This is where its name comes from.

Bouvet Island is the world's most remote island from the mainland.

Bouvet Island is uninhabited volcanic island which is located in the South Atlantic Ocean. 93% of its territory is covered by glaciers. The closest dry land to the island is Gough Island, located about 1,600 kilometers from Bouvet Island. Closest to Bouvet Island mainland- this is the coast, which is located 1700 kilometers. The average annual temperature in this place ranges from 0°C to -3°C.

Death Valley is one of the hottest places in the world

Death Valley is a desert valley located in the western United States. On July 10, 1913, the highest air temperature on Earth was recorded here - +56.7 ° C. Medium Maximum temperature in July it reaches 46 °C, at night it drops to 31 °C. The valley is surrounded by mountains, and its surface, almost devoid of plants, is mostly flat. As air at ground level heats up, it begins to rise, moving up steep high mountain ranges, which then cools slightly as it moves back towards the ground. This heated air creates hot wind currents that prevent the passage a large number clouds over the valley.

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Tired of quad bikes, parachutes and diving? Neither caves nor mountains take your breath away? Then go to the most extreme places world to test your nerves and get an unforgettable experience!

Mount Tianmen, China

“Whoever has visited Mount Tianmen has touched the heavens,” they say in China. These are not just words: on the mountain there is a cave called the Gate to Heaven, fulfilling the wishes of thousands of tourists and pilgrims. You can climb to the Gates by the longest in the world cable car or by car, but you can guarantee the fulfillment of desire only if you reach the top on foot. To do this, a road was laid along Mount Tianmen, called the "Path of Horror." Not only do you need to overcome 999 steps to the top, here you also need to endure fear! The most extreme places on the way to the Heaven's Gate are located at an altitude of 1400 meters, when you cross a narrow transparent glass bridge.

Despite the bravado at the foot of the mountain, few daredevils dare to cross the 6 cm thick glass bridge. Often, in the middle of the journey, tourists experience fainting or nervous breakdowns. Those who have passed the road unanimously declare that the sensations are as if you are hovering over the abyss.

Flight of the Gibbon, Pattaya

The jungles of the Chompo Reserve near Pattaya are the most extreme places for tourism in Thailand. Here travelers will find an unusual and spectacular adventure: a walk over the jungle, called the “Flight of the Gibbon”. From a bird's eye view, about 50 meters above the ground, you can make a path about 4 kilometers long: through platforms on branches, balconies in the crowns of trees and suspension bridges. Those wishing to follow the path of the gibbon will not only have to climb trees, but also fly from platform to platform - and there are as many as 26 of them on the route! The longest distance between platforms is 300 meters. Despite high-quality equipment and reliable insurance, flights are breathtaking for even the most sophisticated adrenaline junkies.

In addition to the extreme height at which they will pass over the jungle, those who dare to try the adventure will open amazing views mountains, waterfalls and giant trees. Due to its picturesqueness and sharpness of sensations, Flight of the Gibbon is one of the most popular excursions in Pattaya. And since the Chompo Nature Reserve is located in national park Chonburi, a walk can be combined with a visit.

Jump into Villarrica Volcano, Chile

Besides that active volcanoes- already the most extreme places on the planet, a trip to the Villarrica volcano in Chile is made unusual by special tricks. For a modest fee of $10,000, you can bungee jump over the volcano directly from a helicopter! The service includes six days of accommodation in a hotel in the city, meals, a helicopter flight over Villarrica and equipment.

Volcano Villarrica is one of the most active on the planet. Last eruption took place on March 3rd. But this does not in the least deter wealthy extreme people, but, on the contrary, stirs up interest in the most dangerous and expensive place in the world for bungee jumping.

TV tower walk CN Tower, Toronto

The main symbol of Canada after Niagara Falls is the CN Tower in Toronto, which rises 554 meters. At an altitude of 350 meters is located observation platform with a glass floor only one and a half meters wide. Having secured a safety cable, you can go around the tower along it. At the same time, extreme tourists are offered to let go of their hands and lean back to feel like flying over Toronto.

The tour of the tower lasts an hour and a half, a third of which you will spend on glass floor. Having calmed the trembling in the knees and hands, you can take pictures and video the landscapes of the city.

Face to face with a shark, Cape Town and Sydney

Lovers tickle nerves at a meeting with wildlife can, of course, go to the reserve or on a safari. But the real adventure is to meet the predator face to face. This service can be ordered in two parts of the world: Cape Town (South Africa) and Sydney (Australia). For shark fans, these are the most extreme places on Earth! In Cape Town, you will be placed in a special cage and lowered under water. If you do this at dawn, you can be in the thick of a school of white sharks!

Recently, a similar attraction appeared in Sydney, Australia. It is enough to sail on a boat away from the beaches, call the sharks with bait - and you can lower the cage with the tourist to the bottom. Thrills are guaranteed.

On land, such an attraction has not yet been invented, but the Japanese TV channel Q tried to repeat the experience with a grizzly bear. The experiment was also interesting because the grizzly paws turned over a strong (!) Cage with a participant, giving her a special experience. The whole range of emotions can be seen on the video filmed by the TV channel.

Troll tongue, Norway

The Troll's Tongue is a piece that broke away from Mount Skjeggedal, which, due to its relatively low weight, did not fall down, but hovered at a height of 350 meters above Lake Ringedalsvatnet. This attraction has become popular with extreme tourists relatively recently. In 2009, Trolltunga was photographed for a popular magazine, and tourists flocked to Norway for beautiful photos and high-altitude extreme. And in a year the flow has tripled! Either from the abundance of visitors, or “accidentally” in the same year, the funicular broke down, which delivered visitors to the top of Mount Skjeggedal.

Now the Norwegian attraction is available only to the most persistent tourists: you need to walk 12 kilometers from the parking lot to it. Plus the same back. But the most enduring on the way to the Troll's Tongue will be rewarded with the beauty of mountain lakes. By the name of the attraction, the reservoirs are called "Troll boilers". The best time to go to the Norwegian rock is in summer or early autumn: the snow-covered paths to the top of Skjeggedal are the most extreme places on the planet.

Tiger Temple, Chiang Mai

You can be in close proximity to one of the most ferocious predators, and moreover, you can feed and pet him at the Tiger Temple of Kanchanaburi Province. The first tiger cub was brought to the temple by border guards in 1999. The monks came out of the beast, and even when he grew up, he got along well with people. Now more than fifty tigers live in the temple, which the monks saved from poachers and raised among relatives.

But although the tigers are meek and diligent, and the surroundings of the temple are not the most extreme places in the world, sometimes the predatory nature takes over and tragedies happen. There were no lethal cases, but from time to time tigers scratch tourists.

To protect yourself, you need to remember a few strict rules, failure to follow which can cost you your life. You can not touch the head and face of the tiger; the touch should be confident and moderately perceptible; you can not pull the beast by the tail, touch the front paws and turn your back to the predator. It is also forbidden to move quickly, make loud noises, try to play with an animal and photograph it with a flash. But even if you do not violate the prohibitions, being around tigers is not entirely safe. Therefore, each tourist (and up to five thousand people who want to touch a live tiger visits the temple every day!) Signs a special document stating that he is responsible for his life and actions.

Running Bull Festival, Pamplona

Pamplona town in Spain most of the year is notable only for its characteristic landscapes and pleasant climate. But in early July, the city and its surroundings turn into the most extreme places in the world! San Fermin, better known as the Feast of the Running Bull, is taking place in Pamplona these days. At the opening of the festival on Monday at noon sharp, a herd of angry bulls is released into the crowd of thrill-seekers, from which you need to run away.

The most dangerous on the course is a 230-meter stretch just outside the stall gate: there is nowhere to hide from angry animals. Many simply fall, hoping that the bull will sweep past. By the way, festival participants get most of their injuries precisely because of the crush and falls, and not from bull horns. The Spaniards themselves never come closer than 50 meters to the gate, but tourists try their luck to the fullest.

Despite the unpredictable consequences of the race, Pamplona gathers not only all local residents but also hundreds of thousands of foreigners. So, in 2009, on the opening day of San Fermin, a record was set: Pamplona was visited by a million tourists!

Death Road, Bolivia

One of the most dangerous roadways in the world is the Death Road in Bolivia, which connects the cities of La Paz and Coroico. During the year, about 30 cars crash here and about a hundred people die. Accidents happen two or three times a month. Most dangerous area roads - descent height of 3.5 kilometers. Due to frequent rains and difficulties with the delivery of repairmen here, the track is almost completely washed out, asphalt remains only on a third of the way. On some sections, the wheels of wide cars are half hovering over the abyss - there is no doubt that these are the most extreme places on Earth!

Of course, because of the mortal danger, the road is popular among extreme sportsmen. Some people want to go down a dangerous descent in a jeep, and some on a bicycle, but not everyone gets to the end.

Officially, excursions along the Death Road are prohibited in Bolivia, but a tourist can easily find a guide at jeep rental points in La Paz or Coroico.

Snake Island Queimada Grande, Brazil

Ride on picturesque island Queimada Grande can become one of the most dangerous in your life, and even the last. The island is notorious throughout the world for the number of venomous botrops snakes: with an area of ​​​​only 0.43 square kilometers for every square meter there are five reptiles.

Aggressively guarding their territory, the snakes quickly multiplied and drove out almost all other inhabitants from the island. After the lighthouse keeper and his family were killed by crawling creatures, the island was closed to the public. Now you can go here only at your own peril and, most likely, mortal risk. But off the coast of the island there are boats with tourists who want to stare at a patch of land infested with poisonous snakes.

Despite the bans, about a hundred people die from botrops bites every year on Keimada Grande. That's why these are the most extreme places for tourism in the world!

IN modern world it's hard to surprise someone with your photos on the background eiffel tower or Egyptian pyramids- these popular attractions have long lost the effect of novelty. However, there are still many truly extreme destinations for tourism. Today we will talk about 10 amazing places on Earth, having been in which you can then all your life surprise friends with stories.

Antarctica

North Pole

Climbing to the top of Chomolungma is an activity for the strongest and most experienced athletes in the world who have been preparing for this achievement for many years. However, almost anyone can touch this event without long training and hardships, because there are tours to base camp on Everest.

North Korea

This type of entertainment for the inhabitants of the Navarre region in Spain became known to the whole world thanks to the work of Ernest Hemingway, who lived in Pamplona for a long time and wrote the work “The Sun Also Rises” about this city.

Exclusion zone of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant

Afghanistan

Way of Saint James

A space flight

Price flight on this ship is 200-250 thousand dollars. True, commercial flights from Virgin Galactic have not yet begun.

Hitchhiking to Vladivostok

Of course, not all people are ready to make even one of these trips. But this does not mean at all that the road to the End of the World is closed to them. After all, you can travel without even getting up from the couch. For example, using the Google Street View service, which allows you to get even into.

Interesting information O harsh places On the Earth.

I advise you to read it, who knows where we may be tomorrow.

Hottest inhabited place - Dallol, Ethiopia

The average daily temperature in Dallol is + 34.4 °C. Not surprisingly, today it looks more like a ghost town.

The most deep cave– Krubera-Voronya, Abkhazia

This is the only cave in the world deeper than 2,000 meters.

The most high point– Everest

Since the 1950s, approximately 3,000 climbers have climbed the summit of Everest. It is located at an altitude of 8,848 meters above sea level.

Farthest point from the center of the Earth - Chimborazo, Ecuador

Although the summit of Everest is the highest point in relation to sea level, but due to the fact that our planet is flattened at the poles, another peak turned out to be the most distant from the center of the Earth - dormant volcano Chimborazo.

The most remote island - Bouvet

This small uninhabited Norwegian island is located in Atlantic Ocean at a distance of about 1.5 thousand kilometers from Antarctica and 2.5 kilometers from South Africa.

The most remote point on the continent - Pole of inaccessibility (Antarctic station)

The Pole of Inaccessibility is the point on the continent that is the farthest from the ocean. There really is a bust of Lenin.

The flattest place - Uyuni Salt Flats, Bolivia

withered salt lake And the largest salt marsh in the world. Its area is 10,582 square kilometers.

The highest navigable lake is Titicaca

Lake Titicaca is located at an altitude of 3,812 meters above sea level, on the border of Peru and Bolivia.

The most low point on land - the shore of the Dead Sea

The surface of the Dead Sea is 417 meters below sea level, and the Dead Sea depression is located between Jordan and Israel.

The longest mountain range– Andes, South America

The Andes stretch 9 thousand kilometers through the seven states of South America.

The most deep well– Kola superdeep well

The depth of the Kola super-deep well is 12,262 meters.

Rainiest place in Choco, Colombia

The department of Colombia called Choco receives an average of 11,770 centimeters of rainwater every year.

Most dry place- Atacama Desert, Chile

The Atacama Desert is so dry that not a drop of rain fell on it from October 2003 to January 1918.

The most populous landlocked country is Ethiopia

Ethiopia is not only the hottest inhabited place on Earth - it is also the most compactly populated - more than 70 million people live here.

The steepest peak is Mount Thor, Canada

Mount Tor rises to a height of 1,250 meters at an average angle of 15 degrees, which makes it extremely attractive for climbers.

The coldest inhabited place is Oymyakon, Yakutia

Seven months of the year, the temperature in the Yakut village of Oymyakon, where about 400 people live, stays below zero. Average monthly temperature January is -54 °C here.

Windiest place - Commonwealth Bay, Antarctica

The wind speed here regularly exceeds 240 km/h. average speed wind - about 80 km / h.

Most high waterfall– Angel, Venezuela

The total height of the waterfall is 979 meters. It is so high that the water has time to evaporate before reaching the ground.

Highest Mountain pass– Marsimik-La, India

The most high road on Earth stretches at an altitude of 5,582 meters.

Most big lake With fresh water– Upper, North America

Lake Superior is located between the United States and Canada and covers an area of ​​82.7 thousand km².

The glacier is about 470 km long and 30 to 120 km wide. From the side of Mount Prince Charles, the most major tributary- Fisher Glacier.

The shortest river is the Roy River, Montana, USA

The Roy River is listed in the Guinness Book of Records as the shortest. Its length is only about 60 meters.

The lowest point is the Mariana Trench

Located approximately 500 km. southwest of Guam. Its depth is 10,911 meters below sea level. Only three people managed to get to its bottom.

Extreme in our life is found everywhere. Travelers in love thrill, well aware that extreme vacation can be life-threatening, but the very feeling of adrenaline in the blood makes you return to the routes again and again.

But such trips cannot be called just fun on the verge of life and death: they provide an opportunity to enjoy unique encounters with nature and the surrounding world in all its dangerous manifestations.

bungee jumping

If you do not have a certain level of professionalism in order to test yourself in a free fall with a parachute, but want to feel the power of the same excitement, then you can try to jump off some cliff or bridge into the abyss - but - tied to a strong rope!

This type of extreme recreation is called bungee jumping.

His idea is that you can experience free fall some certain time, and then the rope becomes your life-saving equipment, preventing it from falling into the abyss.

Bungee jumping usually starts from the edge of a bridge, the top of a cliff, or the roof of a building. Some amateurs even tried to jump from the boom of a tower crane.

Diving with sharks

This is practically not a dangerous extreme vacation in terms of safety for humans.

A special reliable metal cage, in which a fan of such an extreme (or anyone who wants to try this type of extreme recreation) is placed, falls slightly below the water surface in sea ​​depths where sharks live.

Remaining in a cage, a person is in complete security, can admire these predators and even feed them.

All that threatens him in such an extreme is only excitement and awe ...

What kind of extreme vacation or tourism do you choose?