The History of Everest

Discovery of Everest, the highest mountain in the world, was the culmination of work by geographers, surveyors and explorers. It was a demanding and complicated feat of mountaineering and logistics expertise of those who eventually rose. Both efforts face formidable obstacles - physical, psychological, political and technical - which often proved insurmountable.

The first explorations of Everest involved in the development of measurement techniques for mapping and surveying that have been used by many greats of 19th century explorers to map the Earth's least known regions of Terra Incognita.

The culmination of these skills came in William Lambton Great Trigonometric Survey of the Indian subcontinent. In the 1830, which was under the control of the Surveyor General of India Sir George Everest, after the mountain was named. The scientific enterprise has provided a framework for a geographical map of India, which in turn defeated the mysteries of the Himalayas and Everest was established as the world's highest mountain.