Everest the Ultimate Test
High atop the Himalayas rests a peak higher then any other on Earth. Most call it Mount Everest, and at 29,000 feet above sea level it is regarded as the highest peak on Earth. The summit ridge marks the border between Nepal and Tibet. It was named by an Indian surveyor- general, Sir Andrew Waugh, in honor of his predecessor and mentor Sir George Everest. A Bengali mathematician, Radhanath Sikdar, first discovered Everest as the highest peak on Earth in 1852.
Before it was called Everest it had gone by many other names. The people of Nepal called the mountain Sagarmatha (goddess of the sky), while the people of Tibet referred to it as Chomolungma (mother of the universe). To the rest of the world it was known as peak XV. It was not until Sikdar, stationed in the Indian station Dehra Dun, first calculated that Everest was the highest peak that anyone really paid attention to it. In Jon Krakauer's book, "Into Thin Air" he explains what it might......

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