Mount Everest

At 29,029 feet above sea level, Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. It is located in the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, Tibet and China and is part of the Himalayan Mountain range. Mount Everest is growing two inches taller each year because the two plates of the earth’s crust were the mountain range sits are still moving.

Mount Everest was named after Sir George Everest (1790-1866), a British surveyor. It was first climbed to the top by New Zealander named Edmund Hillary and a Napalese named Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Since then, it has been climbed by 400 people from around the world.