Mount Everest

   Mount Everest

                                

                                 Mount Everest is the largest mountain in the world.Everest is 29,035 feet or 8848 meters high.It is over 60 million years old.Everest was formed by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate.Everest grows by about a quarter of an inch (0.25") every year.Everest is composed of multiple layers of rock folded back on themselves (napes) . 

Rock on the lower elevations of the mountain consists of metamorphic schist's and gneiss's , topped by igneous granite's . Higher up are found sedimentary rocks of marine origin (remnants of the ancient floor of the Tethys Sea that closed after the collision of the two plates). Notable is the Yellow Band, a limestone formation that is prominently visible just below the summit pyramid.
 

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himalayan sub-range of the Himalayas. The international border between Nepal and China runs across its summit point.https://www.britannica.com/place/Mount-Everest

 

After years of dreaming about it and seven weeks of climbing, New Zealander Edmund Hillary (1919–2008) and Nepalese Tenzing Norgay (1914–1946) reached the top of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, at 11:30 a.m. on May 29, 1953. They were the first people to ever reach the summit of Mount Everest.

Hillary and Norgay were part of the British Everest Expedition of 1953, led by Colonel John Hunt (1910–1998). Hunt had selected a team of people who were experienced climbers from all around the British Empire.

Among the eleven chosen climbers, Edmund Hillary was selected as a climber from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, though born a Sherpa, was recruited from his home in India. Also along for the trip was a filmmaker (Tom Stobart, 1914–1980) to document their progress and a writer (James Morris, late Jan Morris) for The Times, both were there in the hopes of documenting a successful climb to the summit; the 1953 film "The Conquest of Everest," resulted from that. Very importantly, a physiologist rounded out the team.