How did mt. everest form?

Question

i tried looking it up but there are a bunch of big complicated words i dont understand so could anyone tell me (in a semi easy and simple way) how and when it formed??? much loves 2 al!! <<33

Answer 1

THE FORMATION OF MOUNT EVEREST

- Mount Everest, like the rest of the Himalayas, rose from the floor of the ancient Tethys Sea. The range was created when the Eurasian continental plate collided with the Indian subcontinental plate about 30 to 50 million years ago.

Answer 2

India which is a plate that collided with asia and the force of the two plates forced the asian plate to go up and over the indian plate and so it made himilayan mts. and thus making mt. everest. It also grows about a cm each year since they are still colliding

Answer 3

Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, resides between Tibet and Nepal in the Himalayas. The Himalayas were formed over 26 million years ago by an extreme collision in the Earth&#039;s crust, which caused the land to crumble, and rise significantly above sea level (Grolier-Himalayas 1). The mountain actually consists of two peaks, one which stands 8,848 meters beyond sea level . It is youthful, maturing, and still stands free of erosion (Grolier-Mount Everest 1). The most unbelievable fact is that Mount Everest is not finished growing (Grolier- Himalayas 1). Just these few facts show how incredible this summit is.

Answer 4

basically, india collided with china and pushed the land upwards.

Answer 5

Mount Everest, also called Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ) or Sagarmatha (Nepali: सगरमाथा) is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level, which is 8,848 meters or 29,029 feet. The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and Tibet, China. By the end of the 2007 climbing season there had been 3,679 ascents to the summit by 2,436 individuals. There have been 210 deaths on the mountain, where conditions are so difficult that most corpses have been left where they fell; some are visible from standard climbing routes.[4]

Climbers range from experienced mountaineers to relative novices who count on their paid guides to get them to the top. This means climbers are a significant source of tourist revenue for Nepal, whose government also requires all prospective climbers to obtain an expensive permit, costing up to $25,000 (USD) per person.[5]

The Great Trigonometric Survey of India was begun by the British in 1808 to determine the location and names of the world&#039;s highest mountains. Starting in southern India, the survey teams gradually moved northward using giant 1100 pound theodolites (requiring 12 men to carry) to measure heights as accurately as possible. They reached the Himalayan foothills by the 1830s but Nepal was unwilling to allow the British to enter the country due to suspicions of political aggression and possible annexation. Several requests by the surveyors to enter Nepal were turned down. The British were forced to continue their observations from Terai, a region south of Nepal which is parallel to the Himalayas. Conditions in Terai were difficult due to torrential rains and malaria — three survey officers died from malaria while two others had to retire due to failing health. The British pressed on though and began detailed observations of the Himalayan peaks in 1847 from observation stations up to 150 mi (240 km) away. Weather restricted work to the last three months of the year and in November, Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India made a number of observations from Sawajpore station location in the eastern end of the Himalayas. At the time, Kangchenjunga was considered the highest peak in the world and with interest he noted a peak beyond it, some 140 mi (230 km) away. John Armstrong, one of Waugh&#039;s officials, also saw the peak from a location further west and called it peak &#039;b&#039;. Waughm would later write that the observations indicated that peak &#039;b&#039; was higher than Kangchenjunga but due to the great distance of the observations, closer observations were required for verification. The following year, Waughm sent a survey official back to Terai to make closer observations of peak &#039;b&#039; but clouds thwarted all attempts. In 1849, James Nicolson was dispatched by Waughm who was able to make two observations from Jirol, 118 mi (190 km) away. Nicolson then took the largest theolodite and headed east, obtaining over 30 observations from five different locations, with the closest being 108 mi (174 km) away from the peak. [6]

Unknown to Nicolson, he had just completed the observations that would establish peak &#039;b&#039; as the highest peak on Earth. Nicolson retreated to Patna on the Ganges to perform the necessary calculations based on his observations. His raw data gave an average height of 30,200 ft (9,200 m) for peak &#039;b&#039; but this did not take into account light refraction which distorts heights. The number though was clearly higher than Kangchenjunga. Nicolson, however, also came down with malaria and was forced to return home, calculations unfinished. Michael Hennessy, one of Waughm&#039;s assistants, had begun designating peaks based on Roman Numerals, with Kangchenjunga named Peak IX while peak &#039;b&#039; now became known as Peak XV.[6]

Stationed at the survey&#039;s headquarters in DehraDun, Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world&#039;s highest peak in 1852, using trigonometric calculations based on Nicolson&#039;s measurements.[7]. An official announcement that Peak XV was the highest was delayed for several years as the calculations were repeatedly verified. Waughm began work on Nicolson&#039;s data in 1854 and along with his staff spent almost two years working on the calculations, having to deal with the problems of light refraction, barometric pressure and temperature over the vast distances of the observations. Finally, in March 1856 he announced his findings in a letter to his deputy in Calcutta. Kangchenjunga was declared to be 28,156 ft (8,582 m) while Peak XV was given the height of 29,002 ft (8,840 m). Waughm concluded that Peak XV was &quot;most probably the highest in the world&quot;.[6] Peak XV was found to be exactly 29,000 feet (8,839 m) high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 ft (8,840 m). The arbitrary addition of 2 feet (0.6 m) was to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.[citation needed]

With the height now established, what to name the peak was clearly the next challenge. While the survey was anxious to preserve local names if possible (e.g. Kangchenjunga and Dhaulagiri were local names), Waughm argued that he was unable to find any commonly used local name. Many local names existed, perhaps the most well known in Tibet for several centuries was Chomolungma and which had appeared on a 1733 map published in Paris by the French geographer D&#039;Anville. However, Waughm argued that with the plethora of local names, it would be difficult to favour one specific name over all others. So, he decided that Peak XV should be named after George Everest, his predecessor as Surveyor General of India.[6] 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.[citation needed]

George Everest opposed the name suggested by Waughm and told the Royal Geographical Society in 1857 that Everest could not be written in Hindi nor pronounced by &quot;the native of India&quot;. Waughm&#039;s proposed name prevailed despite the objections and in 1865, the Royal Geographical Society officially adopted Mount Everest as the name for the highest mountain in the world.[6]

Naming

The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma or Qomolangma (ཇོ་མོ་གླིང་མ, translated as &quot;Mother of the Universe&quot; or &quot;Goddess Mother of the Earth&quot;), and the Chinese transliteration is Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng (simplified Chinese: 珠穆朗玛峰; traditional Chinese: 珠穆朗瑪峰) or Shèngmǔ Fēng (simplified Chinese: 圣母峰; traditional Chinese: 聖母峰).[citation needed] The Tibetan name, Chomolungma, gets a mention in the 2008 American film The Bucket List, in which one of the dying wishes of the two lead characters is to see the mountain. According to English accounts of the mid-19th century, the local name in Darjeeling for Mount Everest was Deodungha, or &quot;Holy Mountain&quot;.[8] In the 1960s, the Government of Nepal gave the mountain the official Nepali name of Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा), meaning &quot;Goddess of the Sky&quot;.[9]

In 1865, the mountain was officially given its English by the Royal Geographical Society after being proposed by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. Waugh chose to name the mountain after George Everest, first using the spelling Mont Everest, and then Mount Everest. However, the modern pronunciation of Everest IPA: /ˈɛvərɪst, ˈɛvrɪst/[10] is in fact different from Sir George&#039;s own pronunciation of his surname, which was /ˈiːvrɪst/[11].

In the late 19th century many European cartographers incorrectly believed that a native name for the mountain was &quot;Gaurisankar&quot;.[12] This was a result of confusion of Mount Everest with the actual Gauri Sankar, which, when viewed from Kathmandu, stands almost directly in front of Everest.[citation needed]

In the early 1960s, the Nepalese government gave Mount Everest the official name Sagarmatha (सगरमाथा). This name had not previously been used; the local inhabitants knew the mountain as Chomolungma.[9] The mountain was not known and named in ethnic Nepal (that is, the Kathmandu valley and surrounding areas).[citation needed] The government set out to find a Nepalese name for the mountain because the Sherpa/Tibetan name Chomolangma was not acceptable, as it would have been against the idea of unification (Nepalization) of the country.[citation needed]

In 2002, the Chinese People&#039;s Daily newspaper published an article making a case against the continued use of the English name for the mountain in the Western world, insisting that it should be referred to by its Tibetan name. The newspaper argued that the Chinese (in nature a Tibetan) name preceded the English one, as Mount Qomolangma was marked on a Chinese map more than 280 years ago.[13]



Aerial view of Mount Everest from the south

Measurement



Mount Everest north face from Rongbuk in Tibet

Another aerial view of Mount Everest from the south, with Lhotse in front and Nuptse on the leftIn 1856, Andrew Waugh announced Everest (then known as Peak XV) as 29,002 feet (8,840 m) high, after several years of calculations based on observations made by the Great Trigonometri