Sunday, August 21, 2011

Everest mountain

Mount Everest  is the world's tallest mountain (when measured from sea paras). Summit ridge marks the border between Nepal and Tibet; peak in Tibet. In Nepal, the mountain is called Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा, Sanskrit for "Forehead Heaven") and the Tibetan Chomolangma or Qomolangma ("Mother of the Universe"), pronounced in Chinese language 珠穆朗玛峰 (pinyin: Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Feng).
The volcano is getting his English name from the name of Sir George Everest. This name was given by Sir Andrew Waugh, the surveyor-general British India, the successor of Everest. Everest is one of the top seven in the world.

Radhanath Sikdar, surveyors and mathematicians from Bengal, was the first state summit of Mount Everest as the highest peak in 1852 through trigonometric calculations. This calculation is done using a theodolite from a distance of 150 miles away in India. Most of the people of India believe that the peak should be named according to Sikdar, not Everest.
This mountain has an altitude of about 8850 m, although there are variations in terms of size (both Nepal and the Chinese government has not officially endorsed this measure, the height of Everest is still considered to be 8848 m by them). Mount Everest was first measured in 1856 has a height of 8839 m, but stated as 8840 m (29,002 feet). Additional 0.6 m (2 feet) shows that at that exact altitude of 29,000 feet will be considered as a rounded estimate. Estimates general use at this point is 8850 m obtained by reading the Global Positioning System (GPS). Himalayas are still growing higher due to tectonic plate movement area.
Mount Everest is a mountain whose top reaches the farthest distance from the sea paras. Two other mountains are sometimes also referred to as "the highest mountain in the world" is Mauna Loa in Hawaii, the highest measured essentially at the bottom of the sea, but only reached an altitude of 4170 m above sea face and Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador, a peak 2150 m higher than the earth's center than Mount Everest, because it inflates the Earth at the equator region. However, Chimborazo only reached an altitude of 6272 m above sea paras, so it is not even the highest peak in the Andes.
Basic deepest in the ocean deeper than the height of Everest: the Challenger Deep, located in the Mariana Trench, so deeply if placed inside the Himalayan mountains, there are still nearly 1.6 miles of water covering it.

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