The name is from Sanskrit himālaya, atatpurusa compound meaning "the abode of snow" (from hima "snow", and alaya "abode"; ). Together, the Himalaya mountain system is the planets highest and home to all fourteen of the world's highest peaks: the Eight-thou sanders, including Mount Everest. The mountain ranges are the source of three of the world's major river systems, the Indus Basin, the Ganga-Brahmaputra Basin and the Yangtze Basin. The people of the Himalayan region are largely of Indo-Tibetan descent and distinctive religions include Hinduism and Tibetan Buddhism.
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the earth. It’s the Spirit which lives and breathes all along the Nepal. Sagarmatha (which means Goddess of the sky) is the Nepali name of Mount Everest.
A brief fact sheet of Mount Everest.
| Definition of Mount Everest | a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world. |
| Nepali Name | Sagarmatha (which means Goddess of the sky) |
| Tibetan Name | Chomolungma (which means mother Goddess of the Universe) |
| Height | 8848 meters or 29,029 ft |
| Location | On the border between Nepal and Tibet, where all of the worlds 14 Eight thousand meter peaks are found. |
| Longitude | 86º55'40' E |
| Latitude | latitude 270 45' N and 280 0' N and longitude 800 30' E and 870 0' E in the Solukhumbhu District of Sagarmatha Zone of the kingdom of Nepal |
| Local People | Sherpas and Tibetan |
