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Mount Everest North Face as seen from the path to North Base Camp Mount Everest Location on the border between Province No. 1, Nepal and Tibet Autonomous Region, China Show map of Province No. 1 Mount Everest Mount Everest (Nepal) Show map of Nepal Mount Everest Mount Everest (Tibet)
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See moreMount Everest (Nepali: सगरमाथा, romanized: Sagarmāthā; Tibetan: Chomolungma ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ; Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰; pinyin: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the
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See moreThe Tibetan name for Everest is Qomolangma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, lit. "Holy Mother"). The name was first recorded with a Chinese transcription on
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See more19th-century surveys
In 1802, the British began the Great Trigonometric Survey of India to fix the locations, heights, and names of the world's highest mountains. Starting in southern India, the survey teams moved northward using giant...
See moreThere is very little native flora or fauna on Everest. A moss grows at 6,480 metres (21,260 ft) on Mount Everest. It may be the highest altitude plant species. An alpine cushion plant called
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See moreIn 2008, a new weather station at about 8,000 m (26,000 ft) elevation went online. The station's first data in May 2008 were air temperature −17 °C (1 °F), relative humidity 41.3 per cent,
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See moreBecause Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world, it has attracted considerable attention and climbing attempts. Whether the mountain was climbed in ancient times is
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See moreGeologists have subdivided the rocks comprising Mount Everest into three units called formations. Each formation is separated from the other by low-angle faults,
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See moreWikipedia text under CC-BY-SA license Everest is a 2015 historical survival adventure film directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy. It stars an ensemble cast of Jason Clarke, Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Martin Henderson and Emily Watson. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest dis…
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