article_snippet: Mount Everest is the Earth's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres above sea level.
article_snippet: In 1865, Mount Everest was given Mount Everest official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon a recommendation by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India.
article_snippet: Mr Waugh named the Earth's highest mountain after Mr Waugh predecessor in the post, Mount Everest.
article_snippet: Mount Everest is one of 14 mountain peaks on Earth that stand taller than 26,000ft (8,000m) and the local Nepalese name for it is Sagarmatha, which means 'mother of the universe.'
article_snippet: Mount Everest is the tallest of these so-called ‘eight-thousanders’ and is the standard to which all other mountains are compared.
article_snippet: Mount Everest geological story began 40 million years ago when the Indian subcontinent began a slow-motion collision with Asia.
article_snippet: The edges of the two continents were forced together and formed the tall ridges that make up the Himalayas today.
article_snippet: Glaciers have chiselled Mount Everest’s summit into a huge, triangular pyramid, defined by three faces and three ridges that extend to the northeast, southeast, and northwest.
article_snippet: Mount Everest (pictured) is one of 14 mountain peaks on Earth that stand taller than 26,000ft (8,000m) and
article_snippet: the local Nepalese name for it is Sagarmatha, which means 'mother of Mount Everest is the tallest of these so-called ‘eight-thousanders’ and is the standard to which all other mountains are compared.
highlights_snippet: The region is also known as the Everest Region and is on the Nepalese side of the world's highest mountain .
  