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by benhurmarcel 1226 days ago
A helicopter was successfully hovered to land on the Everest though, at 8,848 m (29,029 ft).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didier_Delsalle#Mount_Everest_...

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(For context, the atmosphere at 65k feet is about 1/5 of Everest.)