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US
/ˈɛvɝəst, ˈɛvɹəst/
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NOUN
- a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high)
How To Use Everest In A Sentence
- He will be sadly missed from the sport, and will climb Everest with fervent wishes for safety and success. Times, Sunday Times
- But high command has yet again told them to leave the Bolly in the ice bucket, not least because it would look terrible to be seen quaffing champers when the chancellor will soon unveil the severest squeeze on public spending in decades. The Tories are still struggling to come to terms with the new order
- The problem is severest for women, who in Colombia are held in contempt or deemed disreputable for working at all.
- Finally, there is the obsession of mountain climbers to conquer Mt. Everest. The Summit of the Gods Book 1 » Manga Worth Reading
- Next-door Nepal offers a case study of vulgar tourism - Kathmandu is so choked with dark brown smog that the Everest is invisible on some days.
- We may observe here the singular paradox, which we believe that the philosophy of the mind and the experience of the scholar equally establish, that what are usually called the heaviest or severest subjects of thought are the least exhausting to the thinker. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 121, November, 1867
- Like oxygen bottles on Everest and increasing Himalayan tourism, bolting is something which has to be controlled.
- To your left you pass Cho Oyu, Mount Everest, and Makalu, each summit spiking in a web of frosted snow and giving way to yet more distant summits, the shining whiteness becoming a filigree of ice trails as your eyes fall to the lower ridges and then to stepped fields and trees—the last great undestroyed forests of the Himalayas. Vanity Fair - Enter the Dragon King
- You see the edges of it, instead of being bossed, or knopped, or crocketed, are mouldings of severest line. Val d'Arno
- From Gokyo Ri four 8000-metre peaks (Cho Oyu, Everest, Lhotse and Makalu) are visible at once. Motion Trek | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles