Mount Everest

Mount Everest

noun
1.
Everest (def. 1).
2.
something regarded as the most difficult or challenging of its kind: the Mount Everest of international sailing.
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Ev·er·est

[ev-er-ist, ev-rist]
noun
1.
Mount, a mountain in S Asia, on the boundary between Nepal and Tibet, in the Himalayas: the highest mountain in the world. 29,028 feet (8848 meters).
2.
high point; summit: The book is an Everest in the field of historical scholarship.
3.
a male given name.
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Mount Everest definition


Mountain on the border of Tibet and Nepal in the central Himalayas.

Note: At over 29,000 feet, it is the highest peak in the world.
Note: It was first scaled in 1953 by Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay of Nepal.
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