Mount Everest is Earth’s highest mountain above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society.
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Mount Everest is Earth’s highest mountain above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society. As of 2019, over 300 people have died on Everest, many of whose bodies remain on the mountain. There are two main climbing routes, one approaching the summit from the southeast in Nepal and the other from the north in Tibet. The name was first recorded with a Chinese transcription on the 1721 Kangxi Atlas, and then appeared as Tchoumour Lancma on a 1733 map published in Paris by the French geographer D’Anville. In the late 19th century, many European cartographers incorrectly believed that a native name for the mountain was Gaurishankar, a mountain between Kathmandu and Everest. In 1849, the British survey wanted to preserve local names if possible, but could not find any commonly used local name. In 1960, the early pronunciation of Mount Everest is different from Sir George Nepalese’s pronunciation of his surname, Everest. The modern pronunciation of the mountain’s name is Mount Everest, which is the same as the pronunciation of Sir George Everest’s surname. The official Chinese transcription of the name is Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng, and it is also infrequently simply translated into Chinese as Shèngm Fēng. Many other local names exist, including \”Deodungha\” in Darjeeling.
The first recorded efforts to reach Everest’s summit were made by British mountaineers. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first official ascent of Everest in 1953, using the southeast ridge route. The Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo, and Qu Yinhua made a reported ascent of the peak on 25 May 1960. The 1924 expedition resulted in one of the greatest mysteries on Everest to this day: George Mallory and Andrew Irvine made a final summit attempt on 8 June but never returned, sparking debate as to whether or not they were the first to reach the top. They had been spotted high on themountain that day but disappeared in the clouds, never to be seen again, until Mallory’s body was found in 1999 at 8,155 m on the north face. Waugh argued that because there were there were many local names, it would be difficult to favour one over all others; he decided that Peak XV should be named after his predecessor as British surveyor General of India, Sir George Mount Everest. He told Everest’s objections that the name could not be written by Hindi nor pronounced by his native Nepaleses. The Royal Geographers adopted Mount Everest as the name for Mount Everest in 1865, despite the objections of Everest’s native pronunciation, and in the early 1960s, the name was officially adopted.
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