The world’s highest mountain Mount Everest is 0.86m higher than had been previously officially calculated, Nepal and China have jointly announced.The new height is 8,848.86m (29,032 ft).

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Mount Everest is the world’s highest mountain (above sea level) at 8,848.86m (29,032 ft), In Nepal, Mount Everest is known as Sagarmatha, meaning ‘Goddess of the Sky’. In Tibet, it is known as Chomolungma, meaning ‘Goddess Mother of the World’. The first summit was on May 29th, 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary from New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, climbing from the southern slopes of Nepal. In 1975, Junko Tabei, a Japanese woman, became the first woman to summit Mount Everest.

                                            MOUNTAINS

Any natural elevation of the earth surface is called a Mountain.

Fold Mountains

Formed/ caused by large-scale earth movements from the folding of the earth’s crust. This can be where two continental plates, convergent plate boundaries, move/pushed towards each other or a continental and an oceanic plate. The movement of the two plates, compressing boundaries, rocks and debris are warped and folded ,forces sedimentary rocks upwards into a series of folds;like a tablecloth that is pushed across a table.

The Appalachians in North America and the Ural mountains in Russia (very old fold mountains) Himalayas, Andes, world’s longest mountain chain and Alps are examples of Fold Mountains

Block Mountains

These mountains form when faults or cracks in the earth’s crust force some materials or blocks of rock up and others down. Instead of the earth folding over, the earth’s crust fractures (pulls apart). It breaks up into blocks or chunks ;Created when a large mass of land is broken and displaced vertically.

eg ;The Rhine valley and the Vosges mountain in Europe

2. Volcanic Mountains: Formed due to volcanic activity. Ex: Mt. Kilimanjaro in Africa and Mt. Fujiyama in Japan.