Mount Everest
Synonyms
Chomolungma (in Tibetan); Sagarmatha (in Nepali); Zhumulangma Feng (in Chinese)
Definition
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. The height of its summit is 8848 m above mean sea level and its coordinates are 27°59′17″N, 86°55′31E″. It is located on the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and Tibet, China. It is a part of the Mahalangur Himal in the Himalaya Range in Asia. Since there was no local Nepali name of this highest mountain of the world, it was officially named Mount Everest by the Royal Geographical Society after the Surveyor General of India, George Everest, in 1865. In the early 1960s, the Nepalese Government gave its official name as Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा meaning Head of the Sky). It lies in the Sagarmatha National Park which was declared as the World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1981. The first successful ascent of the Everest was made by the New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay from Nepal on May 29, 1953, via South Col Route. Since then,...
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