Sir George Everest, CB, FRS, FRAS, FRGS (/ˈiːvrɪst/, EEV-rist; 4 July 1790 – 1 December 1866) was a British surveyor and geographer who served as Surveyor...
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should be named after British surveyor Sir George Everest, his predecessor as Surveyor General of India. Everest himself opposed the honor, and told the...
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The North Face is the northern side of Mount Everest. George Mallory's body was found on the North face by the 1999 Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition...
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George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions...
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Gheorghe Dijmărescu (redirect from George Dijmarescu)
8, 2023. "Everest and Other Enemies". "Nine-time Everest summiteer George Dijmarescu is dead". Adventure Mountain. 9 October 2020. "Everest Summiteers...
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mathematical as to their form. In 1855, Boole married Mary Everest (niece of George Everest), who later wrote several educational works on her husband's...
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The 1953 British Mount Everest expedition was the ninth mountaineering expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Everest, and the first confirmed...
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Mussoorie (section Sir George Everest's House)
Although unsuccessful, the Surveyor General of India at the time, George Everest, wanted the new office of the Survey of India to be based in Mussoorie;...
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documentary film Everest (2015 film), an US biographical film Lost on Everest, a 2020 US documentary film about George Mallory's camera My Everest, a 2023 UK...
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the leadership of his successor, George Everest, the project was made the responsibility of the Survey of India. Everest was succeeded by Andrew Scott Waugh...
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Everest is a 70mm American documentary film, from MacGillivray Freeman Films, about the struggles involved in climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain...
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people have died attempting to reach—or return from—the summit of Mount Everest which, at 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1⁄2 in), is Earth's highest mountain...
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to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", meaning to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest. This table...
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Everest is a 2015 biographical survival adventure film directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy....
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Thomas Roupell Everest, Rector of Wickwar, and Mary nee Ryall. Her uncle was George Everest, the surveyor and geographer after whom Mount Everest was named...
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The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from...
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Everest.: 1 After two summit attempts in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record of 8,572.8 metres (28,126 ft),: 11 the mountaineers George...
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Mount Everest Committee—came under the leadership of Colonel Charles Howard-Bury, with Harold Raeburn as mountaineering leader, and included George Mallory...
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Geoffrey Hinton (redirect from Geoffrey Everest Hinton)
Geoffrey Everest Hinton CC FRS FRSC (born 6 December 1947) is a British-Canadian computer scientist and cognitive psychologist, most noted for his work...
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List of Mount Everest death statistics is a list of statistics about death on Mount Everest. Examples of known cases Rahul Panchal (Ghabus), April 25...
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of Mount Everest). The first event described as "Everesting" was by George Mallory, grandson of George Mallory, who disappeared on Everest in 1924. The...
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Survey General Lt. George Everest in the year 1852. Pioneering mathematician and Surveyor Radhanath Sikdar measured Mount Everest in 1852, with a height...
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the height of Mount Everest. He was the first person to calculate the height of Mount Everest, in 1852. In 1831, George Everest, the Surveyor General...
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Everest reconnaissance expedition had explored all the eastern and northern surroundings of the mountain. In searching for the easiest route, George Mallory...
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There are two base camps on Mount Everest, on opposite sides of the mountains: South Base Camp is in Nepal at an altitude of 5,364 metres (17,598 ft)...
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This list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. By the...
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Tenzing Norgay (category Sherpa summiters of Mount Everest)
Retrieved 10 October 2022. Tony Astill, Mount Everest The Reconnaissance 1935 (2005) George Band, Everest Exposed (2005), an account of the 1953 expedition...
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Royal Navy for 30 years, died locally. Colonel Sir George Everest (1790–1866), eponym for Mount Everest. Surveyor and geographer, served as Surveyor General...
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Mary Everest Boole argues that Babbage was introduced to Indian thought in the 1820s by her uncle George Everest: Some time about 1825, [Everest] came...
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above sea level, is the second-highest mountain on Earth, after Mount Everest at 8,849 metres (29,032 ft). It lies in the Karakoram range, partially...
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