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What is the height of mount everest ? what is the other name of mount Everest? |
Travel Info www.aboundasian.com Travel Tips 8,848 meters (29,028 feet) In Nepal, the mountain is called Sagarmatha (啶膏啶班ぎ啶距ぅ啶? Sanskrit for "Goddess of the Sky"); this name was invented in the early 1960s (by Baburam Acharya) when the Nepalese government realized that Mount Everest had no Nepalese name. This was because the mountain was not known and named in ethnic Nepal (the Kathmandu valley and surrounding areas). The Sherpa/Tibetan name Chomolangma was not acceptable, as it would have been against the idea of unification (Nepalization) of the country. However, the ancient name for the mountain is Devgiri (in Sanskrit, it means "holy mountain") or Devadurga (the English pronounced it as deodungha in the 1800s); please refer to the Harrapan archaeology site for more on the history behind the name. In Tibetan it is Chomolungma or Qomolangma (嘟囙郊嗉嬥綐嘟监紜嘟傕境嘟勦紜嘟? ("Mother of the Universe"), or in Chinese: 鐝犵﹩鏈楃應宄?(pinyin: Zh奴m霉l菐ngm菐 F膿ng) or 鑱栨瘝宄?(Sh猫ngm菙 F膿ng). The mountain was given its English name in 1865 by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal and Tibet closed to foreign travel, he wrote: 鈥 was taught by my respected chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir Geo. Everest to assign to every geographical object its true local or native appellation. 鈥?But here is a mountain, most probably the highest in the world, without any local name that we can discover, whose native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal.鈥?In the meantime the privilege as well as the duty devolves on me to assign鈥 name whereby it may be known among citizens and geographers and become a household word among civilized nations. Hence Waugh chose to name the mountain after George Everest, first using the spelling Mont Everest, and then Mount Everest. However, the modern pronunciation of Everest 鈥?IPA: [藞蓻v蓹r瑟st] or [藞蓻v蓹r扫st] (EV-er-est) 鈥?is different from Sir George's own pronunciation of his surname, which was [藞iv;r瑟st] (EAVE-rest). In 2002, the Chinese People's Daily newspaper published an article attacking the continued use of the English name for the mountain in the Western world, insisting that it should be referred to by its Tibetan name. Chinese marked the location Mount Qomolangma on their map more than 280 years ago, named after a Tibetans' Goddess Qomolangma, which gains ground as the peak's original name.[3] Others Mount Everest, or Sagarmatha ("Goddess of the Sky") is 29,028 feet above sea level. The height of mount Everest is 8854 m and an other name for this mount is Chomolugma. |
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