What is the first name of mount everest ?

is it goerge everest?

What is the first name of mount everest ?
yes it was george
Reply:The Tibetan name for Mount Everest is Chomolungma or Qomolangma (, translated as "Mother of the Universe" or "Goddess Mother of the Earth"), and the Chinese transliteration is Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng or Shèngmǔ Fēng .


The Tibetan name, Chomolungma, gets a mention in the 2008 American film The Bucket List, in which one of the dying wishes of the two lead characters is to see the mountain. According to English accounts of the mid-19th century, the local name in Darjeeling for Mount Everest was Deodungha, or "Holy Mountain". In the 1960s, the Government of Nepal gave the mountain the official Nepali name of Sagarmatha ,meaning "Goddess of the Sky"





In 1865, the mountain was officially given its English by the Royal Geographical Society after being proposed by Andrew Waugh, the British surveyor-general of India. Waugh chose to name the mountain after George Everest, first using the spelling Mont Everest, and then Mount Everest. However, the modern pronunciation of Everest IPA: /ˈɛvərɪst, ˈɛvrɪst/ is in fact different from Sir George's own pronunciation of his surname, which was /ˈiːvrɪst/


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Colonel Sir George Everest (4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843.





The Welshman was largely responsible for completing the section of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal, a distance of approximately 2400 kilometres. The survey was started by William Lambton in 1806 and lasted several decades. Mount Everest was named in his honor and surveyed by his successor, Andrew Waugh.





George Everest was born in the Manor of Gwernvale at Crickhowell in Powys, in 1790.