Mount Everest

Mount Everest
Looking at Mount Everest from the south (from Kala Patthar)
Highest point
Elevation	8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) [1]
More Information → Ranked 1st Prominence 8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft)  Ranked 1st (Notice special definition for Everest) Isolation 40,008 km (24,860 mi)  Listing Seven Summits Eight-thousander Country high point Ultra Coordinates 27°59′17″N 86°55′31″E / 27.98806°N 86.92528°E / 27.98806; 86.92528[2] Naming Native name सगरमाथा (Sagarmāthā) ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ (Chomolungma) 珠穆朗玛峰 (Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) Geography Mount Everest Location on the Province No. 1, Nepal – Tibet Autonomous Region, China border Show map of Province No. 1 Mount Everest Mount Everest (Nepal) Show map of Nepal Mount Everest Mount Everest (Tibet) Show map of Tibet Mount Everest Mount Everest (China) Show map of China Mount Everest Mount Everest (Asia) Show map of Asia Location Solukhumbu District, Province No. 1, Nepal;[3] Tingri County, Xigazê, Tibet Autonomous Region, China[4] Countries China and China Parent range Mahalangur Himal, Himalayas Climbing First ascent 29 May 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay (First winter ascent 17 February 1980 Krzysztof Wielicki, Leszek Cichy) Normal route southeast ridge (Nepal)

Mount Everest ^[a] is the highest mountain on Earth. Mount Everest is in the Himalayas, a tall mountain range in Asia. It is about 8,848 metres (29,029 feet) high.^[5]

Mount Everest is on the line between two countries: Nepal and China. The top of the mountain is in the "death zone" where the air is too thin for a human to live. People need large bottles of oxygen to let them breathe. The first people to get to the top were Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.

There are 18 ways (paths or routes) to get to the top,^[6] but most people use only two ways.

1. ↑ Based on the 1999 and 2005 surveys of elevation of snow cap, not rock head. For more details, see Surveys.
2. ↑ The WGS84 coordinates given here were calculated using detailed topographic mapping and are in agreement with adventurestats Archived 2014-01-08 at the Wayback Machine. They are unlikely to be in error by more than 2". Coordinates showing Everest to be more than a minute further east that appeared on this page until recently, and still appear in Wikipedia in several other languages, are incorrect.
3. ↑ Geography of Nepal: Physical, Economic, Cultural & Regional By Netra Bahadur Thapa, D.P. Thapa Orient Longmans, 1969
4. ↑ The position of the summit of Everest on the international border is clearly shown on detailed topographic mapping, including official Nepalese mapping.
5. ↑ Brooks, David (2008-01-11). "Edmund Hillary, first atop Everest, dead at 88". Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 2009-09-14.
6. ↑ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/150420-everest-climbing-sherpas-mountaineering-nepal-himalayas-guides. National Geographic (2015)