Category Himalayas

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा) and in Tibetan as Chomolungma (ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ), is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The international border between Nepal (Province No. 1) and China (Tibet Autonomous Region) runs across its summit point.

The name of the range derives from the Himā-laya (हिमालय, “ of Snow”), from himá (हिम, “snow”) and ā-laya (आलय, “receptacle, dwelling”).

They are now known as the “ Mountains”, usually shortened to the “Himalayas”. Formerly, they were described in the singular as the “Himalaya”.

This was also previously transcribed “Himmaleh”, as in Emily Dickinson’s poetry and Henry David Thoreau’s essays.

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