adventure travel1. Mount Everest 8848 meters or 29,029 ft* 2. Longitude: 86 degrees 55'40" E Latitude: 27 degrees 59'16" N 3. Nepal Name: Sagarmatha 4. Tibetan Name: Chomolungma 5. Mount Everest History Time Line: 1841: Sir George Everest, Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843, records the location of Mount Everest. 1848: Peak b is surveyed the British, which ruled India; The height of Mount Everest is calculated at 30,200 feet from measurements taken 110 miles away. 1852: The Great Trigonmetrical Survey of India determines the Peak XV of Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. 1854: Mount Everest Peak b renamed Peak XV. 1856: Surveyor Andrew Waugh completes the first height measurement, declaring Mount Everest to be 8840 meters high. (29,002 feet). 1865: Peak XV re-named Mount Everest to honor Sir George Everest, the Surveyor General of India. Everest is known as Chomolungma in Tibet and Sagarmatha in Nepal. 1903: The Viceroy of India, Lord Curzon, concerned about possible Russian influence inside Tibet, sends Sir Francis Younghusband to ostensibly negotiate "frontiers and trade". The Tibetans refuse to enter negotiations, so Younghusband leads a British Army Expedition to Lhasa. A treaty is eventually signed in September, 1904, after the Dalai Lama flees to Mongolia. 1904: A member of Younghusband's staff, J. Claude White, photographs the Eastern side of Mount Everest from Kampa Dzong, 94 miles away. While not the first photograph of Mount Everest ever taken, it's the first to show any significant details of the mountain.