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what two goverments do you have to deal with and get permission from in order to climb mt. Everest. Please help me answer this question. Please answer that first and then tell me what it is called. I WILL choose you as the best anwser if you answer both of those questions!

2006-11-01 12:57:33 · 4 answers · asked by Answerfinder1360 5 in Science & Mathematics Geography

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Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet.

In Nepal, the mountain is called Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा, Sanskrit for "Goddess of the Sky"); this name was invented in the early 1960s (by Baburam Acharya) when the Nepalese government realized that Mount Everest had no Nepalese name. This was because the mountain was not known and named in ethnic Nepal (the Kathmandu valley and surrounding areas). The Sherpa/Tibetan name Chomolangma was not acceptable, as it would have been against the idea of unification (Nepalization) of the country. However, the ancient name for the mountain is Devgiri (in Sanskrit, it means "holy mountain") or Devadurga (the English pronounced it as deodungha in the 1800s); please refer to the Harrapan archaeology site for more on the history behind the name. In Tibetan it is Chomolungma or Qomolangma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ) ("Mother of the Universe"), or in Chinese: 珠穆朗瑪峰 (pinyin: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) or 聖母峰 (Shèngmǔ Fēng).

The mountain was given its English name in 1865 by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal and Tibet closed to foreign travel

2006-11-01 13:37:51 · answer #1 · answered by safrodin 3 · 1 0

India and Nepal. Mt. Everest is called Sagarmatha - meaning head of the ocean.

2006-11-01 21:01:03 · answer #2 · answered by moksha 2 · 1 0

republic of China and Nepal.

2006-11-01 21:24:16 · answer #3 · answered by nairb 2 · 1 0

are you going to climb it, if so your frekaing sweeeeeet in my book, i want to, but im just a kid, but thats doenst mena i cant, it just means i like cake

2006-11-01 21:11:53 · answer #4 · answered by jesse W 2 · 1 0

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