Mount Everest is about 8,848 meters above sea level. It is the main peak of the Himalayas and the highest mountain in the world.
Origin of the name:
The Tibetan word "job-mo glang-ma rib" (Qomolangma) means "Mother of the Earth". In Tibetan, Jo-mo "Zhumu" means goddess, and glang-ma "Langma" should be understood as female elephant (in Tibetan, gland-ma has two meanings: alpine willow and female elephant). Mythology says that Mount Everest is the palace where the long-lived five-ring child ga lives. However, there is another English saying that appears many times in middle school textbooks, namely Mount Qomolangma or Qomolangma Mount. This mountain peak is generally called Mount Everest or Mount Everest in the West to commemorate George Everest, director of the Survey of India who was responsible for measuring the Himalayas when the British occupied Nepal. . The Nepali name is Sagarmatha, which means "goddess of the sky". This name was given by the Nepali government in the 1960s. Previously, the Nepalese people had not given this mountain a name, and the government did not choose to use a transliterated name due to political reasons.
The "Lotus Relic" unearthed in 1258 is called "Lachi", and the Kagyu monk Sangji Gyaltsen's "Milarepa Song Collection" calls the location of Mount Everest "the most snowy place". In 1717, surveyors of the Qing Dynasty surveyed and mapped the "Imperial Map of the Mountains" in the Mount Everest area, and named it after "Zumlangma Alin". "Alin" is Manchu, meaning "mountain". In 1952, the Chinese government changed the name to Mount Everest. In 1952, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the General Administration of Publication of the Central People's Government of China announced that "Mount Ephesus" should be renamed "Mount Everest".
In 2002, "People's Daily" published an article arguing that the English name "Mount Everest" used in the Western world should be renamed its Tibetan name "Mount Everest". The newspaper believes that the mark on China's map 280 years ago was named "Everest" before the West used the English name "Mount Ephesus".
Taiwan has traditionally called this mountain "Mountain of Mount Everest".
Geographical location:
It is located in the middle section of the Himalayas at the junction of the Tibet Autonomous Region of China and the Kingdom of Nepal, with 27°59′15.85″ north latitude and 86°55′39.51″ east longitude. The northern slope is at It is within the territory of Tingri County in the Tibet Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China, and the southern slope is within the territory of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.
Geological evolution:
The Himalayan region where Mount Everest is located was originally an ocean. Over the long geological time, a large amount of gravel and silt were washed away from the land and accumulated in the In the Himalayas, marine sedimentary rock formations more than 30,000 meters thick are formed here. Later, due to strong orogeny, the Himalayan Mountains were squeezed and raised violently. According to estimates, the average rise is about 20 to 30 meters every 10,000 years. To this day, the Himalayan Mountains are still rising, with an average rise of 20 to 30 meters every 100 years. It rises 7 centimeters per year.
As time goes by, the height of Mount Everest will continue to change due to the movement of geographical plates. Interestingly, although Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world, its summit is not the farthest point from the center of the earth. This particular point belongs to the Chimborazo Mountains in South America. The tall and majestic image of Mount Everest has always had a huge impact locally and around the world.