Mount Everest

Notebook: Mount Everest

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Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalayas. It lies between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China. At 8,849 metres (29,032 feet), it is considered the highest point on earth. In the 19th century, the mountain was named after George Everest, a former Surveyor General of India. The Tibetan name is Chomolungma, which means ‘Mother Goddess of the World’. The Nepali name is Sagarmatha, which has several meanings.

The first recorded people to climb Everest were Edmund Hillary (a mountaineer from New Zealand) and his Tibetan guide Tenzing Norgay. They climbed the mountain in 1953 and share the record. The first records of Everest’s height were made much earlier, in 1856. British surveyors recorded Everest as the world’s highest peak in their Great Trigonometrical Survey of the Indian subcontinent.