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 The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma or Qomolangma ( meaning "Mother of the Universe"). According to English accounts of the mid-19th century, the local name in Darjeeling for Mount Everest was Deodungha, or "Holy Mountain.
". In the 1960s, the Government of Nepal gave the mountain an official Nepali name: Sagarmatha, meaning "Head of the Sky".
In 1865, the mountain was given its English name by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. With both Nepal and Tibet closed to foreign travel, he wrote:
I was taught by my respected chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest to assign to every geographical object its true local or native appellation. But here is a mountain, most probably the highest in the world, without any local name that we can discover, whose native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal. In the meantime the privilege as well as the duty devolves on me to assign…a name whereby it may be known among citizens and geographers and become a household word among civilized nations.
Waugh chose to name the mountain after George Everest, Mount Everest.
Everest Base Camp - Kala Patthar Trek (16 days)
Day 01 : Fly from Kathmandu to Lukla. Trek to Phakding.
Day 02 : Trek from Phakding to Namche Bazaar (3440 m).
Day 03 : Rest at Namche Bazar for acclimatization.
Day 04 : Trek from Namche Bazaar to Tyangboche (3850 m).
Day 05 : Trek from Tyangboche to Dingboche( 4350m)
Day 06 : Rest at Dingboche for acclimatization.
Day 07 : Trek from Dingboche to Chhukung (4730m)
Day 08 : Trek to Chhukung Ri (5546m),Lobuche (4900m) via Dongla(4620m).
Day 09 : Trek from Lobuche (4900m) to Gorakshep (5180m).
Day 10 : Trek to Kalapatthar(5545m) for sunrise view beyond the Himalayas. back to Pheriche.
Day 11 : Trek to Phortse (3750m).
Day 12 : Trek from Phortse (3750m) to Khumjung (3790m).
Day 13 : Trek from Khumjung to Thame (3800m).
Day 14 : Trek from Thame to Monjo (2835m).
Day 15 : Trek from Monjo to Lukla (2800m).
Day 16 : Take a flight back to Kathmandu from Lukla. |
