- 1聖母峰（台灣）；中國大陸稱珠穆朗瑪峰
Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. It stands in the Himalaya, on the border between Nepal and Tibet. Its height is a little over 8,800 metres — so high that the air is thin, the cold is fierce, and people often need extra oxygen near the top. from many countries try to reach the summit; some succeed, and some die. The Tibetan name is Chomolungma, often explained as Mother Goddess of the World; the Nepali name is Sagarmatha. The English name Everest is newer. In the nineteenth century, British map-makers named the peak after Sir George Everest, a who had worked in India — a is someone who measures land. He himself was not eager to have the mountain named after him. His surname may go back to a Norman French name, Devereux, meaning someone from the town of Évreux in France — that is a may, not a sure dinner-table fact. People also use Everest as a picture-word: that exam was my Everest means it was the biggest challenge they had ever faced.
組成The mountain was named after Sir George Everest. The surname may come from Norman French Devereux, from Évreux in France.
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- Everestinga cycling challenge named after the mountain: you climb the same height as Everest
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Everestname詞源 1/ˈɛvəɹɪst/
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Ellipsis of Mount Everest.
- One day in the late spring of 1924 an observer on the East Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of Everest, staring up at the summit of the mountain through a telescope, saw the morning mists part around the summit, and saw there two black figures climbing steadily upwards. One of them was an Oxford undergraduate, the other was Mallory. They were, at that moment, at a height of 28,400 feet, higher than any man has ever climbed before and only six hundred feet below the top.
- The early expeditions, though they failed, did make the picture much clearer. The problems of Everest emerged- problems of supply and support, unbelievably treacherous weather, and worst of all, the problem of altitude itself- the terrifying lack of oxygen. Several of the early climbers attacking the summit from the north got within a thousand feet of it. Mallory and Irvin for instance, who attempted it in 1924. Neither of them came back. Why should a man climb Everest? It was Mallory himself who gave the classic reply: 'Because it is there'. Everest remained a challenge: aloof, inviolate, murderous.
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Ellipsis of Mount Everest.
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A surname.
Everestverb詞源 2/ˈɛvəɹɪst/
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climbingcyclinghobbiesTo repeatedly cycle up steep roads with a total distance equal to the height of Mount Everest.
- Training for an Everest expedition in 1994, Mallory wrote, he had Everested by cycling eight times up Mount Donna Buang, outside Melbourne.
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