Lesson Plans

Hello students this page is for you! But before we begin, we want to remind you that "climbing can kill you", as Gary Neptune puts it so well. High Altitude Mountaineering, such as climbing Everest and these other 8000 meter peaks is an extremely dangerous activity, where people die every year. Frankly we cannot think of any more dangerous activity on earth!

Every year we received hundreds of e-mail questions from students. We have made the below lesson plans for you and your teachers! These will answers almost all of your questions. No we do not write the reports for you. 

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Welcome to the educational link of EverestNews.com. Kevin Cherilla, base camp manager of the NFB 2001 Everest Expedition and 7th and 8th grade physical education teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, is the primary author of these plans. His duties as base camp manager was performing daily correspondence with students and adults around the world and sharing thoughts and curriculum information.

Kevin put together many lesson plans for all of you to use in the classroom and to find out more about mountaineering and the people and country of Nepal. These lesson plans are a culmination of his ideas along with input from the staff at EverestNews.com, and other educators from around the country. Please utilize the lessons in your own creative way and modify them according to the academic levels of your students.

Lesson 1 - Everest Expeditions
Lesson 2 - Geology of Everest
Lesson 3 - Plate Tectonics
Lesson 4 - Nepal
Lesson 5 - Kathmandu
Lesson 6 - Mountain Villages
Lesson 7 - Climate of Nepal
Lesson 8 - History of Nepal
Lesson 9 - People of Nepal
Lesson 10 - The Newars and Tamang
Lesson 11 - The Sherpas and Thakalis
Lesson 12 - The Gurkas,Brahmans, Cchetris, and Tharu
Lesson 13 - Food of Nepal
Lesson 14 - Hinduism and Buddhism
Lesson 15 - Yaks
Lesson 16 - The Arts
Lesson 17 - Flora and Fauna of Nepal
Lesson 18 - Training for the Climb
Lesson 19 - Climbing Vocabulary
Lesson 20 - Nepalese Vocabulary
Lesson 21 - The Physiology of High Altitude Climbing
Lesson 22 - Technology Used on the Mountain
Lesson 23 - Itinerary
Lesson 24 - Jobs on the Mountain
Lesson 25 - Internet Links
Lesson 26 - Equipment List
Lesson 27 - Enjoy!