Where is Mount Everest?

Everest is a mountain that is the mosthigh on the ground. Other of its names are Jomolungma and Sagarmatha, but for the European, these names sound too strange, and for speakers of some languages ​​it's hard to pronounce, so we often hear the name Everest.

Where is Mount Everest - in the East, on the border of Nepal and China. This is one of the mountains in the mountain system of the Himalayas. But in fact, the very summit of Everest is in the territory of China.

Everest is not just a high mountain, it is the highest point of the globe.

Height of Everest according to various sources from 8844 to8852 meters. And this is almost 9 kilometers, this distance is quite substantial on the horizontal, and if you imagine it in height, then you will mentally put dozens of existing skyscrapers on each other.

Everest as the highest point of the earth isA tempting target for climbers, but not everyone is able to reach the top of this mountain. The first ascent began in the early twentieth century, but because of poor equipment they did not reach the summit and stopped several hundred meters to the top. And only by 1953 the first group of people finally managed to do it.

On Mount Everest there were accidents and many travelers died or did not get to the top, or coming back from it, and in some cases there was no accurate data about it.