Maria Dănilă, from Constanta, is the first woman in Romania to climb the K2 peak, in the Karakoram mountain range on the ...

Colonel George Everest, former Surveyor-General of British India, probably never saw the peak that bears his name. Despite this, he was instrumental in the process that led to its naming. Locally, ...

Chomolungma in Sagarmatha I will end with this extract from Walt Winsworth’s Everest. ‘In October 1975 I was walking through the Sagarmatha National Park with a Sherpa guide and a porter. The porter ...

During the Sagarmatha Sambaad in Nepal, China's Vice Chairman Xiao Jie repeatedly referred to Mount Everest as "Chomolungma," the Chinese name, while other participants used English and Nepali ...

Chomolungma Controversy: China's Name Game at Nepal's Sagarmatha Sambaad At Nepal's Sagarmatha Sambaad, China's Vice Chairman Xiao Jie exclusively used the Chinese name 'Chomolungma' for Mount Everest ...

While Jie stood at the stage for about 20 minutes during the inauguration session, he pronounced "Chomolungma" ten times instead of Sagarmatha which has been used as the title of the event.

The Khumbu Icefall, a frozen river that moves four feet a day, flows at the foot of Mt. Everest and must be navigated to reach the mountain's summit.

River capture enhances the uplift of Chomolungma Modelling of the evolution of the Kosi drainage basin near Chomolungma suggests that a river capture event occurred approximately 89 ka ago.

At 8,849 metres, Mount Everest, also known as Chomolungma in Tibetan or Sagarmāthā in Nepali, is the tallest mountain on Earth and rises about 250 metres above the next tallest peak in the ...