Elevation: 29,035 feet (8,850 meters)
Location: Nepal/Tibet, Asia
First Ascent: Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal), May 29, 1953
Location: Nepal/Tibet, Asia
First Ascent: Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) and Tenzing Norgay (Nepal), May 29, 1953
Interesting Facts About Mt Everest:
Mount Everest is also called Chomolangma,
meaning “Goddess Mother of Snows” in Tibetan and Sagarmatha,
meaning "Mother of the Universe" in Nepalese. The mountain is sacred
to the native people.
British surveyors named the peak for
George Everest (properly pronounced “I-ver-ist”) a Surveyor General of India in
the mid-nineteenth century.
Age: approximately 60 million years old.
