:00:07. > :00:10.It's Wednesday, 29th May. I'm Joe and you're watching Newsround.
:00:10. > :00:15.Here's what we've got for you: Did you feel the earthquake this
:00:15. > :00:25.morning? We've got your stories. And the highest party ever, 60 years
:00:25. > :00:28.
:00:28. > :00:31.since man first climbed Everest. thick and fast from Wales today
:00:31. > :00:35.about one story, an earthquake in North Wales at around 4am this
:00:35. > :00:38.morning. No damage was done and no-one was hurt, but you've been
:00:38. > :00:45.describing how your houses shook! It was the strongest quake to hit the
:00:45. > :00:48.area for almost 30 years. But did you know that the UK is hit by about
:00:48. > :00:53.200 every year, most way too small to be felt? I've been finding out
:00:53. > :00:57.more. Did you feel it? Evie in Gwynedd, North Wales did. Her
:00:57. > :01:02.windows and walls shook. Pete from Flintshire woke up when his bed
:01:02. > :01:08.started shaking. And Lilly and Daisy sent us this message: I remember
:01:08. > :01:12.waking up at about 4. 15am and the house was shaking. I thought the
:01:12. > :01:15.bikes had fallen over. I wish they had. It felt like a lorry crashing
:01:15. > :01:18.into the house. The earthquake hit North Wales this
:01:18. > :01:22.morning just after 4am between the seaside town of Aberdar-on and
:01:22. > :01:25.Bangor. But the tremor was felt as far away as Dublin in the Republic
:01:25. > :01:34.of Ireland. Professor Ernie Rutter from Manchester University studies
:01:34. > :01:38.earthquakes. The whole of the outer most part of the earth, the top 15
:01:38. > :01:45.kilometres are so is quite fractured and broken. It has been squeezed by
:01:45. > :01:49.natural processes and every once in a while one of the cracks moves and
:01:49. > :01:53.those vibrations we perceive as earthquakes But this isn't the first
:01:53. > :01:56.time an earthquake has been felt in Wales, close by in 1984 a quake
:01:56. > :02:00.struck that was the largest recorded in mainland britain in 200 years
:02:00. > :02:03.with a magnitude of 5.4. . This map shows all the significant
:02:03. > :02:06.earthquake activity in the UK in recent times. The South East is
:02:06. > :02:09.pretty quiet with all the action happening between South Wales and
:02:10. > :02:12.the North East. This variation is thought to be because of the
:02:13. > :02:16.different rock types deep underground. Earthquakes in other
:02:16. > :02:20.parts of the world can be powerful and deadly but for these guys, the
:02:20. > :02:30.North Wales earthquake of 2013 has left them with a little less sleep
:02:30. > :02:34.
:02:34. > :02:44.including newcomer Luca Parmitano from Sicily. Italian chefs have
:02:44. > :02:46.
:02:46. > :02:49.prepared special astronaut lasagne your life, from the extreme cold. It
:02:49. > :02:51.can take years of training before you're even ready to start. We're
:02:51. > :02:55.talking about climbing Mount Everest, the tallest point on earth.
:02:55. > :03:03.And on this very day 60 years ago, two men, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing
:03:03. > :03:11.Norgay became the first people ever to conquer it. Here's Ricky.
:03:11. > :03:15.Conquering Mount Everest. I'm here at 6,000 meters above sea level.
:03:15. > :03:22.In the past 60 years more than 3,000 climbers have scaled their way to
:03:22. > :03:25.the top. From the oldest climber, this 80-year-old from Japan to the
:03:25. > :03:29.youngest, a 13-year-old from America. Then you have some of the
:03:29. > :03:32.more daring mountaineers. In fact, most recently, some climbers have
:03:32. > :03:35.complained that the summit of Mount Everest has become gridlocked with
:03:35. > :03:42.people queuing up to take on one of the world's most challenging
:03:42. > :03:48.mountains. Some have tried and never made it. Around 300 people have lost
:03:48. > :03:53.their lives trying to reach the top of the highest point on earth.
:03:53. > :03:57.you go higher, the air gets thinner. On the summit of Everest, there is
:03:57. > :04:00.one-third of the amount of oxygen as there is at sea level.
:04:00. > :04:08.But before 1953, some people thought climbing mount everest was almost
:04:08. > :04:13.impossible. That was until Edmond Hilary from New Zealand and his
:04:13. > :04:17.mountain guide had a go. On the morning of the 29th May 1953, as
:04:17. > :04:27.part of a British expedition, the pair began their final assault on
:04:27. > :04:32.
:04:32. > :04:36.the summit. And they made it!
:04:36. > :04:39.My main worry was the question of the supply of oxygen. Even when we
:04:39. > :04:44.were on top, we were worried as whether we had enough to get down
:04:44. > :04:48.again. Fortunately, we did. They became heroes. They achieved
:04:48. > :04:54.what was considered at the time one of the last great challenges of