Mount Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, Makalu, at Gokyo Ri. Nepal

Left to right are: Mount Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, and Makalu (27,762; world's 5th highest), as seen from Gokyo Ri. Mount Everest (29,035 feet / 8850 meters elevation above sea level, from 1999 GPS measurement), the highest mountain on Earth, was first called Chomolungma or Qomolangma ("Goddess Mother of the Earth" in Tibetan). In 1865, Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India named the mountain for his chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest. In the 1960s, the Government of Nepal named the mountain Sagarmatha, meaning "Goddess of the Sky". The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet, China. Sagarmatha National Park was created in 1976 and honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

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Left to right are: Mount Everest, Nuptse, Lhotse, and Makalu (27,762; world's 5th highest), as seen from Gokyo Ri. Mount Everest (29,035 feet / 8850 meters elevation above sea level, from 1999 GPS measurement), the highest mountain on Earth, was first called Chomolungma or Qomolangma ("Goddess Mother of the Earth" in Tibetan). In 1865, Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India named the mountain for his chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest. In the 1960s, the Government of Nepal named the mountain Sagarmatha, meaning "Goddess of the Sky". The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet, China. Sagarmatha National Park was created in 1976 and honored as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.