The world's highest peak - Everest (Photos)

Mount Everest, 8844.43 meters above sea level, is the world's highest peak. It is located in the eastern section of the Sino-Nepalese border, the North Slope is in the territory of the People’s Republic of China’s Tibet Autonomous Region in Dingri, and the southern slope is in the Kingdom of Nepal Its geographic coordinates are 86.54 degrees east longitude and 27.54 degrees north latitude.

Tibetan "Chumu" is the meaning of the goddess, "Rangma" is the third meaning, because there are four peaks near Mount Everest, Everest ranked third, "Qomolangma" means the third goddess.

Everest snow line height: 5800 to 6200 meters on the north slope, and 5500 to 6100 meters on the south slope. There are three steep walls (north wall, east wall and southwest wall) sandwiched between the northeast ridge, southeast ridge and west mountain ridge. Between these ridges and cliffs, there are 548 continental glaciers with a total area of ​​1.457.07 square kilometers. The average thickness is 7260 meters. The supply of glaciers mainly depends on the formation of snowpack metamorphism in the two major precipitation belts of the Indian Ocean monsoon zone. On the glacier there are a variety of ice-tower forests, rare and magnificent, and there are up to tens of meters of ice cliffs and bright and dark ice cracks in step-by-step traps, as well as dangerous ice avalanche area.

The entire mountain of Mount Everest is a giant pyramid. It is majestic and majestic. On top of the sky, the surrounding terrain is extremely steep and the weather changes rapidly. Between the ridges and cliffs, there are hundreds of glacier sizes, and there are many beautiful and magical ice tower forests, like fairyland Guanghan Palace. In the range of 20 kilometers around Mount Everest, the peaks are clustered with mountains and mountains. There are more than 40 peaks above 7000 meters above sea level. The famous “Luozi Peak” (8463 meters above sea level, the fourth highest point in the world) and the peak of 7589 meters above sea level are more famous in the south, and the southeast is the horse. Karoo Peak (8,463 meters above sea level, the fifth highest point in the world), 3 kilometers to the north is Zhangzifeng at an altitude of 7543 meters, and the west is Nuzi Peak (7855 meters) and Pemori Peak (7145 meters). At the periphery of these giant peaks, there are some world-class peaks overlooking the distance: In the southeast, there is the third peak of the world, the dry city Jiafeng (8,855 meters above sea level, the border between Nepal and Sikkim); in the west, there are 7998 meters above sea level. Peak, 8201 meters of Cho Oyu and 8012 meters of Shishabangma.

China's Tibet has climbed 14 8,000-meter-high expeditions in the world and successfully climbed Mount Everest in 1999.