The Everest is the highest mountain in the world, it has an altitude of 8.848 meters, we can find it in Himalaya, between Nepal and China, the name was in honor to the geographer George Everest in 1.865.
The first ascension was the 29 of May of 1.953, the persons who did it was Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
In 1.960, the Government of Nepal realized what the Everest hasn't got a nepali name, so the country invented one new, Sagarmatha, created by Baduram Acharya.
In 2.002, chinese newspaper published an article about the use of the english name in the West.





