File:Everest - Long lens photo from the ISS.jpg

Photo of Mount Everest and Himalayas taken from the International Space Station / NASA

Mount Everest

Earth's highest mountain above sea level / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Everest_kalapatthar.jpg

Mount Everest (Nepali: Sagarmatha सगरमाथा; Tibetan: Chomolungma ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ; Chinese: Zhumulangma 珠穆朗玛)

Located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas, the China–Nepal border runs across its summit point.

The current official elevation of 8,848 m (29,029 ft), as recognized by China and Nepal, was established by a 1955 Indian survey and subsequently confirmed by a Chinese survey in 1975.

(Editorial comment: Two Everest elevations are often cited, 8,848 meters and 8,8850 meters. The 8,848 meter measurement is the height of the Everest rock and the 8,850 meters elevation adds the snow-ice above the rock and therefore measures the height if you were to be standing on the summit. Repeat: if you were to be standing on the summit of Everest... the summit of Planet Earth, standing on top of the world ;-)

To climb, or not to climb

• https://www.mounteverest.net/expguide/route.htm

Himalayas / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himalayas

Sagarmatha National Park / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sagarmatha_National_Park

Sacred Himalayan Landscape / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacred_Himalayan_Landscape

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