Mount Everest

Mount Everest
Aerial photo from the south, with Mount Everest rising above the ridge connecting Nuptse and Lhotse
Highest point
Elevation	8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) [note 1] Ranked 1st
Prominence	8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft)  Ranked 1st (Special definition for Everest)
Isolation	n/a
Listing	Himalayas Seven Summits ultra-prominent peak eight-thousander
Coordinates	27°59′18″N 86°55′31″E / 27.98833°N 86.92528°E / 27.98833; 86.92528[1]
Naming
Etymology	George Everest
Native name	सगरमाथा (Nepali) (Sagarmāthā) ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (Standard Tibetan) (Chomolungma) 珠穆朗玛峰 (Chinese) (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng)
English translation	Holy Mother, Skyhead
Geography
Mount Everest Location on the border between Koshi Province, Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region, China Show map of Nepal Mount Everest Mount Everest (Province No. 1) Show map of Province No. 1 Mount Everest Mount Everest (China) Show map of China Mount Everest Mount Everest (Tibet) Show map of Tibet Mount Everest Mount Everest (Asia) Show map of Asia
Location	Solukhumbu District, Koshi Province, Nepal;[2] Tingri County, Xigazê, Tibet Autonomous Region, China[note 2]
Countries	China and Nepal
Parent range	Mahalangur Himal, Himalayas
Climbing
First ascent	29 May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay [note 3] Ranked 1st
Normal route	Southeast ridge (Nepal)

Mount Everest ^[a] is the highest mountain on Earth. Mount Everest is in the Himalayas, a tall mountain range in Asia. It is about 8,848 metres (29,029 feet) high.^[3]

Mount Everest is on the line between two countries: Nepal and China. The top of the mountain is in the "death zone" where the air is too thin for a human to live. People need large bottles of oxygen to let them breathe. The first people to get to the top were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

There are 18 ways (paths or routes) to get to the top,^[4] but most people use only two ways.
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1. ↑ "Mount Everest". Peakbagger.com.
2. ↑ Geography of Nepal: Physical, Economic, Cultural and Regional by Netra Bahadur Thapa, D. P. Thapa Orient Longmans, 1969.
3. ↑ Brooks, David (2008-01-11). "Edmund Hillary, first atop Everest, dead at 88". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
4. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/150420-everest-climbing-sherpas-mountaineering-nepal-himalayas-guides. National Geographic (2015)