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. jiri to everest base camp trek - 28 days
Day 01 : Drive to Jiri (1305m). Day 02 : Trek Jiri – Deurali (2500m). Day 03 : Trek Deurali – Sete (2575m). Day 04 : Trek Sete – Lamjura Pass (3530m.) - Junbesi (2675m). Day 05 : Trek Junbesi – Trakshindo Pass ( 3071m.) – Nunthala (2350m). Day 06 : Trek Nunthala – Kharikhola (2050m). Day 07 : Trek Kharikhola – Surke (2339m). Day 08 : Trek Surke – Phakding (2640m). Day 09 : Trek Phakding – Namche Bazaar (3446m). Day 10 : Rest day at Namche Bazaar for acclimatization. Day 11 : Trek Namche Bazaar – Tyangboche (3867m). Day 12 : Trek Thyangboche –Dingboche (4343m). Day 13 : Rest at Dingboche for acclimatization. On this day it is possible to make side trip towards Chukhung (4730m). Day 14 : Trek Dingboche – Lobuche Village(4840m). Day 15 : Trek Lobuche – Gorakshep (5321m.) – Everest Base Camp (5486m.) – Gorakshep. Day 16 : Trek Gorakshep – Kala Pathar (5545m) – Lobuche. Day 17 : Trek Lobuche – Tengboche. Day 18 : Trek Tyangboche – Khumjung (3790m) – Namche Bazaar. Day 19 : Trek Namche Bazaar – Lukla (2800m). Day 20 : Trek Lukla - Surke. Day 22 : Trek Surke- Kharikhola. Day 24 : Trek Kharikhola - Junbeshi. Day 25 : Trek Junbeshi - Sete. Day 26 : Sete - Deurali. Day 27 : Deurali - Jiri. Day 28 : Drive Jiri - Kathmandu by bus.
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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.