The height of Mount Everest is 29,035 feet or 8848 meters from the ocean level. Mount Everest was shaped by the movement of the Indian tectonic plate pushing up and against the Asian plate. Geologists say Mount Everest is over sixty million years old. Everest is termed Chomolungma by the Tibetan people. It means that mother divinity of the universe.

The cabinet late Thursday endorsed a revision to the Himalayan nation's mountain climbing rules, forbidding solo climbers from its mountains -- one in every of a string of measures being flagged prior the 2018 spring mounting season. "The changes have barred solo expeditions that were allowed before" Maheshwor Neupane, secretary at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, told AFP.