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EVEREST, MOUNT

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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 7 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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EVEREST, See also:MOUNT , the highest See also:mountain in the See also:world. It is a See also:peak of the Himalayas situated in See also:Nepal almost precisely on the intersection of the See also:meridian 87 E. See also:long. with the parallel . 28 N. See also:lat. Its See also:elevation as at See also:present determined by trigonometrical observation is 29,002 ft., but it is possible that further investigation into the value of See also:refraction at such altitudes will result in placing the See also:summit even higher. It has been confused with a peak to the See also:west of it called Gaurisankar (by Schlagint weit), which is more than 5000 ft. See also:lower; but the observations of See also:Captain See also:Wood from peaks near Khatmandu, in Nepal, and those of the same officer, and of See also:Major See also:Ryder, from the route between See also:Lhasa and the See also:sources of the See also:Brahmaputra in 1904, have definitely fixed the relative position of the two mountain masses, and conclusively proved that there is no higher peak than Everest in the Himalayan See also:system. The peak possesses no distinctive native, name and has been called Everest after See also:Sir See also:George Everest (q.v.), who completed the trigonometrical survey of the Himalayas in 1841 and first fixed its position and See also:altitude. (T. H.

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