Highest Peak in the World: Mount Everest

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level.

• Elevation: 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet) — jointly declared by China and Nepal in 2020.
• Location: Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas, on the border between China (Tibet Autonomous Region) and Nepal.
• Names: Sagarmatha (Nepali), Chomolungma (Tibetan), Everest (English, after Surveyor General George Everest).

First summit: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, May 29, 1953.