Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions the mountain's other side, the North Ridge, where several climbers also died, was detailed in a first hand account by British filmmaker and writer Matt Dickinson in his book "The Other Side of Everest". Vicky Jacks of Balquidder, Scotland, summited Everest in May 2004 aged 51yrs. At the time the oldest woman to have achieved this, and Scotland's first woman climber. Timeline of Mount Everest expeditions Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. It is situated in the Himalayan range. The first British expedition—organized and financed by the newly
Mount Everest of his surname ( ). The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is (, "Holy Mother"), whose official Tibetan pinyin form is "Qomolangma". It is also popularly romanised as "Chomolungma" and (in Wylie) as "Jo-mo-glang-ma" or "Jomo Langma". The official Chinese transcription is whose pinyin form is "Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng". It is also infrequently simply translated into Chinese as "Shèngmǔ Fēng" "Holy Mother Peak"). In 2002, the Chinese "People's Daily" newspaper published an article making a case against the use of "Mount Everest" in English, insisting that the mountain should be referred to as Mount "Qomolangma", based on the official form of