What kind of mountain is Mount Everest?

Answer 1

Mount Everest is the "highest mountain in the world", the terrestrial location with the highest elevation above sea level : 29,029 feet (8848 m). It is located in the Himalayan mountain range, on the border between Nepal and Tibet in Asia.

It has the native names Sagarmāthā (Nepal), Chomolungma (Tibet) and Zhumulangma (China) and the first recorded ascent to its summit was by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953.

Answer 2

It is a fold mountain. A fold mountain is when one plate slides under another.

It is the highest mountain if you measure from the lowest visible point, but the fifth tallest if you measure from the center of the Earth.

Answer 3

Mount Everest is the largest and highest mountain in the world. Mount Everest is in the Himalayas. It is about 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) high.[1]

Its peak is on the border of Nepal and Tibet. It is above the Death Zone where the air is too thin for a human being, so usually extra oxygen is used when climbing. The Death Zone refers to the parts of Mount Everest that are above 25,000 ft above sea level.

History

A survey of India in 1856 recorded Everest. It was called Peak XV. This first published height was 8,840 m (29,000 ft). Everest was given its official English name in 1865 by theRoyal Geographical Society.

British people began exploring the area around Mount Everest in 1921. The first expedition to try to climb to the top of Everest was in 1922. On June 8th, 1924, George Leigh Mallory and climbing partner Andrew Irvine tried to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. They disappeared into the fog and were not seen again until Mallory's dead body was found by Conrad Anker in 1999. To this day, no one is sure whether or not Mallory and Irvine made it to the summit before dying, 29 years before the next climbers would reach the summit.

The top of Mount Everest was first reached in May 1953 by the Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and the New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary. This was after 31 years of British trials to get a man on top.

The Sherpas

The Sherpas are the local people who live at the foot of Mount Everest and not the porters who carry the climbers' luggage. For the Sherpas, Mount Everest is a sacred mountain and before they climb Mount Everest they always do a sacrificial offering.

Answer 4

George Everest was a Welsh surveyor and geographer, and the Surveyor General of India from 1830 through 1843. In 1865, Mount Everest was named in his honour despite his objections by the Royal Geographical Society. This enormous peak was surveyed by Everest's successor, Andrew Scott Waugh, in his role as the Surveyor-General of India. George had nether climbed on Mount Everest.

Answer 5

The description of Mount Everest is that it is the highest mountain in the world

Answer 6

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Answer 7

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Answer 8

A Mount Everest Expedition is where a team of climbers go to Mount Everest and climb to the summit and back down.