Mount Everest 50th Anniversary Map, Side B
Side B turns away from the summit pyramid and looks at the country around it. National Geographic devotes this side to Sagarmatha National Park and the surrounding Khumbu, printed at 1:90,000 scale. Inset maps and sidebars cover the Sherpas, notable places in the park, the growth in visitors to the region, and the routes taken by famous Everest expeditions.
The map first appeared in the May 2003 issue of National Geographic, fifty years after Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the top in 1953. The reverse carries a detailed digital model of the mountain, built from infrared imagery shot by the space shuttle and stereo photographs taken from a jet aircraft, resting on survey work reaching back to George Everest himself.
Map Shop offers this map in the following formats:
- Premium paper
- Satin laminated
- Mounted to foam core
- Framed in black molding
- Framed in walnut molding

