Aside from this though, this mountain located in the Himalayas, has some other facts that are quite interesting. Here are five interesting facts about Mount Everest;
1) George Everest didn’t want it named after him.
Mount Everest is named after a surveyor George Everest and surprisingly, Everest wasn’t happy with that idea. This happened way back in 1852 when the Great Trigonometrical Survey team identified a mountain on the border of Nepal and Tibet as the world’s tallest. The British initially called it Peak XV until Andrew Scott Waugh who worked under Everest proposed that it be named for his predecessor. However, George Everest opposed it and preferred using native place names while working as a surveyor. It’s even unknown if George Everest ever laid eyes on this mountain that was named after him.
