Mount Everest

noun

1. Everest ( def 1 ).
2. something regarded as the most difficult or challenging of its kind:

   the Mount Everest of international sailing.

Mount Everest

1. Mountain on the border of Tibet and Nepal in the central Himalayas .

Notes

At over 29,000 feet, it is the highest peak in the world.

It was first scaled in 1953 by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal .

Example Sentences

Nima climbed Mount Everest, the world’s tallest mountain, earlier this year.

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The one that led to the dinosaurs’ extinction 66 million years ago was about 10km wide, or almost the height of Mount Everest.

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The former university student fulfilled her childhood dream of summiting Mount Everest in 2021, aged 20 – and continued to set world firsts as she scaled peak after peak.

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A foot believed to belong to a British climber who went missing 100 years ago has been found on Mount Everest, in a discovery that may solve one of mountaineering's biggest mysteries.

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“Mount Everest and its neighbouring peaks are growing because the isostatic rebound is raising them up faster than erosion is wearing them down,” fellow co-author of the study Dr Matthew Fox told the BBC.

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