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

There’s no place in our solar system that offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Mount Everest.

From Nautilus

Perhaps the highlight of his year was when mountain climber Sir Edmund Hillary — who along with Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest — visited the base for two days, said Grisham.

From Washington Post

She has since visited more than 60 countries and climbed the highest peaks on every continent, including Mount Everest, and wrote a book about it.

From Ozy

Bits and pieces of plastic are turning up all over, including in the snow on Mount Everest.

From Science News For Students

At nearly seven miles below sea level, the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean is the deepest point on Earth, a far greater depth than Mount Everest is tall.

From Washington Post

It reached the lowest point of the Mariana Trench in 2009, which is thousands of meters lower than Mount Everest is tall.

From The Daily Beast

The airplane flew at an altitude higher than that of Mount Everest—about 38,000 feet compared to Everest at 29,000 feet.

From The Daily Beast

Changing the system that creates these dynamics is a much bigger issue than the climbing business of Mount Everest.

From The Daily Beast

Graduating from college was like getting to base camp in the Mount Everest–like climb in life.

From The Daily Beast

Prince Harry will feature in a new documentary about the team of wounded war heroes who attempted to climb Mount Everest.

From The Daily Beast

Hence we see that Mount Everest being 29,002 feet high must be more than five miles high.

From Project Gutenberg

If weather conditions were favourable, they might, we thought, see how high they could get on Mount Everest itself.

From Project Gutenberg

These were the Alpine climbers and their coolies returning after their strenuous efforts on Mount Everest.

From Project Gutenberg

On the opposite side Mount Everest stood out with every detail showing clearly in the autumn sunshine.

From Project Gutenberg

And beyond all investigation of the approaches we should have to scrutinise Mount Everest itself.

From Project Gutenberg