Everest

English

Pronunciation

• (mountain):
  • (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ěʹvurǐst, IPA^(key): /ˈɛvəɹɪst/, /ˈɛvɹɪst/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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  • (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɛvəɹəst/, /ˈɛvɹəst/
• (George Everest and family): IPA^(key): /ˈiːvɹɪst/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: Ev‧e‧rest

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Everest (countable and uncountable, plural Everests)

1. Ellipsis of Mount Everest.
   1. (uncountable) A mountain on the border of Tibet, China and Nepal
      • 1925, Willard L. Sperry, Reality in Worship: a Study of Public Worship and Private Religion‎, New York: Macmillan Company, →OCLC, →OL, pages 337–338:

        One day in the late spring of 1924 an observer on the East Rongbuk Glacier at the foot of Everest, staring up at the summit of the mountain through a telescope, saw the morning mists part around the summit, and saw there two black figures climbing steadily upwards. One of them was an Oxford undergraduate, the other was Mallory. They were, at that moment, at a height of 28,400 feet, higher than any man has ever climbed before and only six hundred feet below the top.

      • 1953, 5:41 from the start, in The Conquest of Everest‎, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 July 2020‎:

        The early expeditions, though they failed, did make the picture much clearer. The problems of Everest emerged- problems of supply and support, unbelievably treacherous weather, and worst of all, the problem of altitude itself- the terrifying lack of oxygen. Several of the early climbers attacking the summit from the north got within a thousand feet of it. Mallory and Irvin for instance, who attempted it in 1924. Neither of them came back. Why should a man climb Everest? It was Mallory himself who gave the classic reply: 'Because it is there'. Everest remained a challenge: aloof, inviolate, murderous.

      • 2022 May 12, “Ukrainian summits Everest 'for her people' as records tumble”, in France 24‎, archived from the original on 12 May 2022:

        Everest saw a clutch of records on Thursday including the most summits for a woman and the first all-Black team -- and a Ukrainian climber reached the top of the world for her war-torn country.
        Nepali climber Lhakpa Sherpa, 48, reached the snow-capped summit for the 10th time, breaking her own record set in 2018.
        "Lhakpa stood atop Everest at 6:15 am today. This has become her 10th ascent," Mingma Gelu Sherpa of Seven Summit Adventure, the agency that handled her expedition, told AFP from the Everest base camp.

      • 2023 May 23, Bhadra Sharma, Sameer Yasir, “4 Everest Ascents in 10 Days: Sherpas Battle for a Climbing Record”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on May 23, 2023, Asia Pacific‎:

        It was unclear whether Pasang Dawa Sherpa planned a third ascent of Everest this season, which started in April and ends the first week of June. Such a feat has never been attempted in the history of Everest climbs, mountaineering experts say.

      • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Everest.
   2. (countable) Epitome, ultimate
2. (countable) A surname.

Derived terms

• Everester
• Everesting
• Everest syndrome
• Mount Everest

 

Translations

Mount Everest — see Mount Everest

Etymology 2

From Everesting.

Verb

Everest (third-person singular simple present Everests, present participle Everesting, simple past and past participle Everested)

1. (climbing, cycling) To repeatedly cycle up steep roads with a total distance equal to the height of Mount Everest.
   • 2020 August 13, Alec Jacobson, “How to Cycle Up ‘Mount Everest’”, in The New York Times:

     Training for an Everest expedition in 1994, Mallory wrote, he had Everested by cycling eight times up Mount Donna Buang, outside Melbourne.

References

• Everesting on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Veteres

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈebeɾest/ [ˈe.β̞e.ɾest̪]
• Rhymes: -ebeɾest

Proper noun

Everest m

1. Everest