By a peak altitude of 29,035 feet (8850 meters), the peak of Mount Everest is the world's highest position over sea level. As the world's highest mountain, mountaineering to the top of Mount Everest has been an aim of numerous mountain hikers for many decades.
Mount Everest is situated on the edge of Nepal and Tibet,China. Mount Everest is situated in the Himalaya, the 1500 mile (2414 kilometer) lengthy mountain method that was shaped when the Indo-Australian plate gone down into the Eurasian plate. The Himalaya rose in rejoinder to the subduction of the Indo-Australian plate under the Eurasian plate. The Himalaya carry on to rise a few centimeters each year as the Indo-Australian plate continues moving northward into and beneath the Eurasian plate.
Indian evaluator Radhanath Sikdar, division of the the British-led appraisal of India, resolute in 1852 that Mount Everest was the tallest mountain in the earth and recognized a preliminary altitude of 29,000 feet. Mount Everest was known as Peak XV by the British until it was given its current English name of Mount Everest in 1865. The mountain was named after Sir George Everest, who served as the Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.
Local names for Mount Everest contain Chomolungma in Tibetan ( means "Goddess mother of the world") and Sagarmatha in Sanskrit ( means "Ocean mother.")
The peak of Mount Everest has three rather level sides; it is said to be bent like a three-sided pyramid. Glaciers and ice cover the sides of the mountain. In July, temperatures can get as high as nearly zero degrees Fahrenheit (about -18 Celsius). In January, temperatures drop to as low as -76°F (-60°C).
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