Mount Everest
Mount Everest, situated on the North end of the Indian subcontinent is the world’s highest peak above sea level. The Mount Everest lies on the border between Nepal and Tibet at 27° 59’17” N latitude and 86 ° 55’31” E longitudes. The Everest is highly revered by locals. There have been many attempts to successfully ascent the Everest summit since 1953. But the route to ascent from Tibet is considerably harder than from Nepal. Nepal did not allow foreigners in their country until after the Second World War.
The first ever recorded people to climb Everest were Edmund Hillary (a mountaineer from New Zealand) and his Tibetan guide Tenzing Norgay. They climbed the mountain in 1953 and hold the record together. The first records of Everest’s height came much earlier, in 1856. British surveyors recorded that Everest was the tallest peak in the world in their Great Trigonometrical Survey of the Indian subcontinent.
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