Mount Everest to climbers on those routes but also to the base camps. Mount Everest Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmatha () and in Tibetan as Chomolungma (), 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 current official elevation of , recognized by China and Nepal, was established by a 1955 Indian survey and subsequently confirmed by a Chinese survey in 1975. In 2005, China remeasured the rock height of the mountain, with a
Mount Everest in 2017 a window of good weather. The ascent opened what one reporter called "the summit blitz". In the early morning of Monday, May 15, 14 members of the Gurkha Everest Expedition summited from the Nepal side. Expedition organizers predicted that 150 would try for the summit in the following days. By May 15, at least 35 more climbers from around the world had summitted. By May 25, an estimated 300–400 people had summited Mount Everest from the Nepal side, and another 120 or so from the Chinese Tibet side. It was discovered that the 2015 earthquake had altered the famed Hillary