Odd factoids

[david k]

The main one being that the pressure is insufficient at that altitude to get the water temperature high enough to cook the egg, before the water boils away. Water boils at 71C up there.

If you make a flask of tea at home, then climb a mountain b careful when opening your flask, your tea will turn to vapour upon opening

 

[david k]

It's a little known fact that Bernard Tapie of La Vie Claire invented the wheel in the late 1970s, this is how they managed to be so successful in the 1980s TdF

 

[Tim Hall]

If you make a flask of tea at home, then climb a mountain b careful when opening your flask, your tea will turn to vapour upon opening

This is avoided by use of modern stainless steel flasks, which seem to incorporate a "safety feature" in that they don't keep stuff warm for longer than a few minutes.

 

[Drago]

As a point of order, I used only Stanley stainless flasks for food and drink, which massively out perform this fragile thermos rubbish.

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/aladdin-stanley-1-litre-camping-flask-p139979

They were designed by Henry Stanley to take with on his expedition to heart of Africa, where he famously discovered Dr Livingstone, so called because he was living and made from stone.

 

[Dave7]

More importantly, chickens are afraid of heights, so getting the raw materials needed is a challenge.

If I remember correctly from the last time I climbed Everest....there is a Tesco Express near the summit that sells fresh eggs, bread and butter etc.

 

[Drago]

Last time I climbed Everest I never quite made then summit, cos I was frightened by a group of teenagers hanging around outside the shop.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

The Tesco on the summit has closed. It is now an Iceland.

 

[Racing roadkill]

If you make a flask of tea at home, then climb a mountain b careful when opening your flask, your tea will turn to vapour upon opening

As long as it’s temperature is still above 71 degrees C, and remains so for long enough after you’ve opened it, for it to boil, possibly, pure water boils at 71 degrees C, at the 34 Kpa pressure on the summit of Mr Everest, I don’t know about tea contaminated water and I’m not sure many people take flasks of tea to drink all the way up there anyway.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

The Tesco on the summit has closed. It is now an Iceland.

I wouldn’t mess about cooking the egg. Just nip to the café next door to the Iceland. 10% off to those who cycle up Everest.

 

[classic33]

Eggs age more in one day at room temperature than they do in one week in the fridge!

 

[Drago]

Double glazing was invented on the summit of Everest.

 

[LeetleGreyCells]

In the 1930s, a Paratrooper mounted Everest and started his own small film company. In the intervening years, the company got bigger, but every time we see one of their films we are reminded of that climb.

 

[classic33]

In the UK, approximately 55 million cups of coffee are drunk each day.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It is possible to cycle up Everest with a Sturmey Archer 3 speed hub gear

 

[ClichéGuevara]

Aeroplanes fly faster from the north to the south because it's downhill.