Mount Everest

Roof of the world at 8,848 m above sea level

🇳🇵 Nepal/Tibet Himalayas 1953

🌿 Why It Matters

8,848.86 m (29,031.7 ft) — highest point on Earth above sea level

First summited by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay on 29 May 1953

Over 6,000 people have successfully summited; about 300 have died attempting it

Called Sagarmatha in Nepali; Chomolungma in Tibetan — "Goddess of the sky"