Mount Everest is located on its southern side in Nepal.
Everest stands in the Himalayas on the Nepal–China border. Nepal contains the southern approach, including the Khumbu region and the popular trekking route through Namche Bazaar to Everest Base Camp. The mountain's northern route begins in Tibet, an autonomous region of China.
The mountain is called Sagarmatha in Nepali and Chomolungma in Tibetan. “Mount Everest” honors George Everest, the Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, although he did not personally survey the peak. The name was adopted in the nineteenth century after the mountain was identified as the world's highest above sea level.
Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa of Nepal, made the first confirmed ascent on 29 May 1953. Modern expeditions face altitude sickness, severe weather, avalanches, and congestion on the climbing routes, so the peak's fame does not make it technically easy.