DEFINITION OF MOUNT EVEREST

The highest mountain in the world is

Mount Everest, reaching 29,035 feet (8,853.5 m) on the border

between Tibet and Nepal in the central Himalaya ranges.

The summit was first reached by Sir Edmund Hillary and

Tenzing Norgay on May 28, 1953. The local Tibetan name

for the mountain is Sagarmatha, meaning goddess of the sky,

but the name Everest was given to the peak after Sir George

Everest in 1865, the British surveyor general of India who

first determined the height and location of the mountain

known then as Peak 15. Mount Everest continues to rise at a

few millimeters per year because of the continued convergence

between India and Asia, uplifting the Himalaya and

Tibetan plateau.

The base of Mount Everest consists of a series of gneisses

and leucocratic granite sheets and dikes. A normal fault cuts

across the south face of the mountain and juxtaposes

unmetamorphosed Paleozoic marine sediments against the

underlying crystalline basement. The normal fault is thought

to represent the early stages of orogenic collapse, caused by

gravitational stresses leading to collapse and spreading of

mountain ranges that reach elevations too high to be held up

by the strength of underlying rocks.

See also HIMALAYA MOUNTAINS.

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