Mount Everest
The roof of the world: 8,848.86 m of former seabed on the Nepal–China border
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01 / FIELD NOTESDATA / IN CONTEXT 01 / Height (official, 2020 Nepal–China survey)8,848.86 m 02 / Prominence8,848.86 m 03 / Nearest giant neighbours8,516 m 04 / Death zone8,000 m
Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above sea level. It sits in the Mahalangur Himal section of the Himalayas, and the Nepal–China border runs across its summit. Nepal and China jointly announced its current official height, 8,848.86 m, on 8 December 2020. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first confirmed ascent on 29 May 1953, and by the end of 2025 the Himalayan Database counted 13,737 summits by 7,563 different people.
“The roof of the world: 8,848.86 m of former seabed on the Nepal–China border”✳
01 / Height (official, 2020 Nepal–China survey)8,848.86 m
02 / Height in feet29,032 ft
03 / Earlier official height8,848 m (Survey of India, 1950s); China's rock height 8,844.43 m (2005)
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02 / OBJECTSThe two highest summits above sea level
Mount Everest↔K2
8,848.86 m8,611 m
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