Please can you give me information about Mt. Everest?

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Thank You.

Answer 1

http://www.infoplease.com/search?fr=iptn&query=mt+Everest&in=all&x=0&y=0

Answer 2

what's the mass of Mt. Everest? (David Sims, 5 November 2014.) i am going to take a shot at it. I regarded at Mt. Everest on Google Earth to make sure what the acceptable particularly straight forward sort for the mountain's structure will be. i found the size of the route around the mountain's perimeter, which became 24666 meters. I figured that an ellipse with that similar circumference would do as a tricky equivalent for the definitely footprint of the mountain, and that i more suitable guessed that a ratio of three/5 would do because the ratio of the semiminor axis to the semimajor axis of this ellipse. C = 24666 m b = 0.6 a x = (a?b)/(a+b) = 0.25 i take advantage of the Ramanujan approximation to locate the size of the axes in meters. C = ?(a+b){a million+3x²/[10+?(4?3x²)]} C = 5.1054a a = 4831.4 meters b = 2898.8 meters i locate the realm of the ellipse, for this reason the anticipated portion of the Mt. Everest footprint. A = ?ab A = 4.4e7 m² Mt. Everest's genuine, h = 8848 meters. the quantity of the mountain will be a stack of infinitesimal ellipses having an similar eccentricity (0.8) because the only on the bottom, yet with reducing semimajor axes. Now, the following is an significant interest. Everest is in simple terms no longer a cone. the perimeters do not slope up linearly. A cone having the footprint section i have anticipated and genuine h would enclose the mountain with a great number of room to spare, subsequently overestimating the mass. So i wanting to sort the reducing lengths of the ascending semimajor axes as a quadratic equation, concave upward. because i have used (a) and (b) already because the axes of the bottom ellipse, i am going to apply (s) and (t) because the generalization for semimajor and semiminor axes. The length, s, of the semimajor axis at genuine y is s = a[(h?y)/h]² The length, t, of the semiminor axis at genuine y is t = 0.6s the realm of the ellipse at genuine y is A = 0.6?s² = 0.6?a²[(h?y)/h]? the quantity of the stack of ellipses elevated by an infinitesimal thickness is discovered by integrating V = ?(0,h) A dy V = 0.6?(a²/h?)?(0,h) (h?y)? dy V = (7.179e-9 m?²) ?(0,h) (h?y)? dy V = (7.179e-9 m?²) ?(0,h) (h??4h³y+6h²y²?4hy³+y?) dy V = (7.179e-9 m?²) (h?y?2h³y²+2h²y³?hy?+y?/5)|(0,h) V = (7.179e-9 m?²) {h?(a million?2+2?a million+0.2)} V = (7.179e-9 m?²) h?/5 V = 7.786e+10 m³ density, ? ? = 2700 kg m?³ mass, m m = 2.1e+14 kilograms

Answer 3

Mount Everest was formed around 60 million years ago it is 8850 meters high (highest point on Earth), name in Nepal is Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky), it was named after Sir George Everest, it is in a range called the Himalayas, in May 29,1953 it was first climbed by Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zeland

Answer 4

At 29,028 ft, Mt Everest is the highest mountain in the world and located at the Himalaya Mountain Range. You find more interesting facts at the following websites.

Answer 5

The ancient Sanskrit names for the mountain are Devgiri (Sanskrit for "Holy Mountain") and Devadurga (the English pronounced it deodungha in the 1800s). In Nepali it is known as सगरमाथा, meaning "Head of the Sky". The Tibetan name is Chomolungma or Qomolangma meaning "Mother of the Universe" and the related Chinese name is Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng (珠穆朗瑪峰) or Shèngmǔ Fēng (聖母峰). In 1865, the mountain was given its English name by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal and Tibet closed to foreign travel.

Waugh chose to name the mountain after George Everest, first using the spelling Mont Everest, and then Mount Everest. However, the modern pronunciation of Everest (IPA: [ˈɛvərɪst] or [ˈɛvərɨst] [EV-er-est]) is in fact different from Sir George's own pronunciation of his surname, which was [ˈiv;rɪst] (EAVE-rest).

In the early 1960s, the Nepalese government realized that Mount Everest had no Nepalese name. This was because the mountain was not known and named in ethnic Nepal (that is, the Kathmandu valley and surrounding areas). The government set out to find a name for the mountain (the Sherpa/Tibetan name Chomolangma was not acceptable, as it would have been against the idea of unification (Nepalization) of the country. The name Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा) was thus invented by Baburam Acharya.

In 2002, the Chinese People's Daily newspaper published an article making a case against the continued use of the English name for the mountain in the Western world, insisting that it should be referred to by its Tibetan name. The newspaper argued that the Chinese name preceded the English one, as Mount Qomolangma was marked on a Chinese map more than 280 years ago.

Elevation 8,848 meters (29,028 feet) [1]
Ranked 1st
Location Nepal and China (Tibet)[2]
Range Khumbu Himal
Prominence 8,848 meters (29,028 feet)
Coordinates 27°59′17″N, 86°55′31″ECoordinates: 27°59′17″N, 86°55′31″E[3]
First ascent May 29, 1953, by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Easiest route South Col (Nepal)

Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852, using trigonometric calculations based on measurements of "Peak XV" (as it was then known) made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India. Measurement could not be made from closer due to a lack of access to Nepal. "Peak XV" was found to be exactly 29,000 feet (8,839 m) high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 feet (8,840 m). The arbitrary addition of 2 feet (0.6 m) was to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.

More recently, the mountain has been found to be 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high, although there is some variation in the measurements. The mountain K2 comes in second at 8,611 m (28,251 feet) high. On May 22, 2005, the People's Republic of China's Everest Expedition Team ascended to the top of the mountain. After several months' complicated measurement and calculation, on October 9, 2005, the PRC's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the height of Everest as 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft). They claimed it was the most accurate measurement to date. But this new height is based on the actual highest point of rock and not on the snow and ice that sits on top of that rock on the summit, so, in keeping with the practice used on Mont Blanc and Khan Tangiri Shyngy, it is not shown here. The Chinese also measured a snow/ice depth of 3.5 m, which implies agreement with a net elevation of 8,848 m. But in reality the snow and ice thickness varies, making a definitive height of the snow cap, and hence the precise height attained by summiteers without sophisticated GPS, impossible to determine.

The elevation of 8,848 m (29,028 ft) was first determined by an Indian survey in 1955, made closer to the mountain, also using theodolites. It was subsequently reaffirmed by a 1975 Chinese measurement. In both cases the snow cap, not the rock head, was measured. In May 1999 an American Everest Expedition, directed by Bradford Washburn, anchored a GPS unit into the highest bedrock. A rock head elevation of 8,850 m (29,035 feet), and a snow/ice elevation 1 m (3 ft) higher, were obtained via this device. Although it has not been officially recognized by Nepal, this figure is widely quoted. Geoid uncertainty casts doubt upon the accuracy claimed by both the 1999 and 2005 surveys.

It is thought that the plate tectonics of the area are adding to the height and moving the summit north-eastwards. Two accounts, suggest the rates of change are 4 mm per year (upwards) 3-6 mm per year (northeastwards), but another account mentions more lateral movement (27 mm), and even shrinkage has been suggested.

Everest is the mountain whose summit attains the greatest distance above sea level. Two other mountains are sometimes claimed as alternative "tallest mountains on Earth". Mauna Kea in Hawaii is tallest when measured from its base; it rises over 10,203 m (about 6.3 mi) when measured from its base on the mid-ocean floor, but only attains 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level. The summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2,168 m (7,113 ft) farther from the Earth's centre (6,384.4 km or 3,967.1 mi) than that of Everest (6,382.3 km or 3,965.8 mi), because the Earth bulges at the Equator. However, Chimborazo attains a height of 6,267 m (20,561 ft) above sea level, and by this criterion it is not even the highest peak of the Andes.

The deepest spot in the ocean is deeper than Everest is high: the Challenger Deep, located in the Mariana Trench, is so deep that if Everest were to be placed into it there would be more than 2 km (1.25 mi) of water covering it.

The Mount Everest region, and the Himalayas in general, are thought to be experiencing ice-melt due to global warming. The exceptionally heavy southwest summer monsoon of 2005 is consistent with continued warming and augmented convective uplift on the Tibetan plateau to the north