Mount Everest - also called Qomolangma (Mount Everest) Peak (Tibetan (Tibetan language): langbo???????????), Mount Sagarm?th? (Mount Everest) (lang-ne???????), Chajamlangma (Mount Everest) (Limbu (Limbu people)), Zhumulangma (Mount Everest) Peak (Chinese (Standard Mandarin): ????? Zh?m�l?ngm? F?ng) or Mount Chomolangma (Mount Everest) - is the highest mountain (List of highest mountains) on Earth above sea level, and the highest point on the Earths continental crust (Crust (geology)#Earths crust), as measured by the height above sea level of its summit (Topographical summit), convert8848mft0. The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in Asia, is located on the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet (Tibet Autonomous Region), China (Peoples Republic of China).

In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India established the first published height of Everest, then known as Peak XV, at convert29002ftm0abbr=on. In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon recommendation of Andrew Waugh (Andrew Scott Waugh), the British (United Kingdom) Surveyor General of India (:Category:Surveyors General of India) at the time. Chomolangma had been in common use by Tibetans for centuries, but Waugh was unable to propose an established local name because Nepal and Tibet were closed to foreigners.

The highest mountain in the world attracts well-experienced mountaineers as well as novice climbers who are willing to pay substantial sums to professional mountain guides to complete a successful climb. The mountain, while not posing substantial technical climbing difficulty on the standard route (other eight-thousanders such as K2 or Nanga Parbat are much more difficult), still has many inherent dangers such as altitude sickness, weather and wind. By the end of the 2008 climbing season, there had been 4,102 ascents to the summit by about 2,700 individuals. Climbers are a significant source of tourist revenue for Nepal, whose government also requires all prospective climbers to obtain an expensive permit, costing up to US $ (United States dollar) 25,000 per person. By the end of 2009 Everest had claimed 216 lives, including eight who perished during a 1996 storm high on the mountain (1996 Everest disaster). Conditions are so difficult in the death zone (altitudes higher than 8,000 m/26,246 ft) that most corpses have been left where they fell. Some of them are visible from standard climbing routes.