Mount Everest is the Earth's highest mountain Height: 29,028 feet, or 5 and a half miles above sea level.
Mt. Everest Location: part of the Himalaya mountain range on the border of Tibet and Nepal.
Named after Sir George Everest, a British surveyor-general of India.
Other names: called "Chomolungma" by Tibetans and Sherpas, which means "Mother Goddess of the Earth."
Countries visible from the summit: Tibet, India, and Nepal
First to climb to summit: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953.
Reienhold Messner. Messner was also the first climber to summit Everest without oxygen.
first attempt to climb Mt. Everest in 1921. First climb to 8,000 m, by George Finch and Captain C. Geoffrey Bruce. Tibet opened its borders to foreigners in 1920.
On May 29, 1953, Edmund Hillary(Beekeeper= A person who keeps honey bees) and Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the roof of the world. Their climb was made from the Nepalese side.
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