Everest, Mount, peak, 29,035 ft (8,850 m) high, on the border of Tibet and Nepal, in the central Himalayas. It is the highest elevation in the world. Called Chomo-Lungma [Mother Goddess of the Land] by Tibetans, it is named in English for the surveyor George Everest. It was first climbed on May 28, 1953, when Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal reached the summit.