Everest summit
Top of world
The Everest summit is the highest point on Earth, the peak of Mount Everest at 29,032 feet (8,849 meters).
Reaching it represents the ultimate mountaineering achievement: She reached the Everest summit on her third attempt.
Figuratively, any pinnacle of accomplishment: Winning the Nobel was the Everest summit of her career.
- peakUtmost height attained
- climbAscend using effort
- HillaryFamed mountaineer, Sir
- altitudeMeasured height above reference
- oxygenElement eight, colorless gas
Himalaya · Nepal · Tibet · basecamp · high camp · fixed ropes · sherpa · mountaineer · frostbite · dead bodies · avalanche · death zone · supplemental oxygen · prayer flags · crampon · ice axe · crevasse · blizzard
- altitude recordsworld record
- 1950sEisenhower, poodle skirt, Elvis Presley, Rosa Parks, baby boom
- summitspeak, apex, pinnacle, zenith, top
- Climbing Featsfirst ascent, free solo, speed record, solo climb, free climb
- Death Zonedeath zone, high altitude, thin air, hypoxia, anoxia
Everest summitMariana Trench
Deepest oceanic chasm
Challenger Deep · base camp · Dead Sea · ocean floor · bottom of the ocean
Everest summitEverest Base Camp
Mountaineering staging ground, highest peak
base camp · valley floor · sea level · trailhead · lowlands