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Mount Everest

Mount Everest
सगरमाथा (Sagarmāthā)
ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (Chomolungma)
珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng)
Mount-Everest.jpg
Everest's north face from the Tibetan plateau
Highest point
Elevation 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) 
Ranked 1st
Prominence 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) 
Ranked 1st
(Notice special definition for Everest)
Listing Seven Summits
Eight-thousander
Country high point
Ultra
Coordinates 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E / 27.98806°N 86.92528°E / 27.98806; 86.92528Coordinates: 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E / 27.98806°N 86.92528°E / 27.98806; 86.92528
Geography
Mount Everest is located in Nepal
Mount Everest
Mount Everest
Location on the Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal - Tibet, China border
Location Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal;
Tingri County, Xigazê, Tibet Autonomous Region, China
Parent range Mahalangur Himal, Himalayas
Climbing
First ascent 29 May 1953
Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
(First winter ascent 1980 Leszek Cichy and Krzysztof Wielicki)
Normal route southeast ridge (Nepal)
External image
360° panoramic view (virtual tour)

Mount Everest, also known in Nepal as Sagarmāthā and in China as Chomolungma/珠穆朗玛峰, is Earth's highest mountain. Its peak is 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. Mount Everest is located in the Mahalangur range. The international border between China (Tibet Autonomous Region) and Nepal runs across Everest's precise summit point. Its massif includes neighbouring peaks Lhotse, 8,516 m (27,940 ft); Nuptse, 7,855 m (25,771 ft) and Changtse, 7,580 m (24,870 ft).

In 1856, the Great Trigonometrical Survey of India established the first published height of Everest, then known as Peak XV, at 8,840 m (29,002 ft). The current official height of 8,848 m (29,029 ft) as recognised by China and Nepal was established by a 1955 Indian survey and subsequently confirmed by a Chinese survey in 1975. In 2005, China remeasured the height of the mountain and got a result of 8844.43 m. An argument regarding the height between China and Nepal lasted 5 years from 2005 to 2010. China argued it should be measured by its rock height which is 8844 m but Nepal said it should be measured by its snow height 8848 m. In 2010, an agreement was finally reached by both sides that the height of Everest is 8,848 m and Nepal recognises China's claim that the rock height of Everest is 8,844 m.

In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India. As there appeared to be several different local names, Waugh chose to name the mountain after his predecessor in the post, Sir George Everest, despite George Everest's objections.


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