Mount Everest (Nepal: Sagarmatha; Tibet: Chomolungma, is 8,848m/29,029ft above sea level. The peak is part of the border between China and Nepal. Nearly peaks are Lhotse (8,516m/27,940ft; Nuptse (7,855m/25,771ft) and Changtse (7,580m/24,870ft).

In 1865, Everest was named by the Royal Geographical Society after a British Surveyor General of India, Sir George Everest.

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first ascent of Everest in 1953.