What is "everest"

Everest \Everest\ prop. n. the highest mountain in the world, situated in Nepal and Tibet; 29,028 feet high. proper name

Note: Also used as a metaphor for a high mountain.

Syn: Mount Everest, Mt. Everest.

mountain between Nepal and Tibet, named 1865 for Sir George Everest (1790-1866), surveyor-general of India. The Tibetan name is Chomolangma "mother goddess of the world." Everest's surname is said in name-books to be a variant of Devereux, a Norman name, from Evereux/Evreux in France, which from a Celtic tribal name (Latin Eburovices) based on the Ebura (modern Eure) river.

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain peak.

Everest may also refer to:

Everest is a 70mm American documentary film, from MacGillivray Freeman Films, about the struggles involved in climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak on Earth, located in the Himalayan region of Nepal. It was released to IMAX theaters in March 1998 and became the highest-grossing film made in the IMAX format.

"Everest" is a science fiction short story by Isaac Asimov. It was first published in the December 1953 issue of Universe Science Fiction and reprinted in the 1975 collection Buy Jupiter and Other Stories. Asimov wrote the story in one sitting while visiting the Chicago, Illinois editorial offices of Universe on 7 April 1953.

Everest is a 2015 British–American–Icelandic–Nepali mountain adventure film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, starring an ensemble cast which features Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal. It is adapted from Beck Weathers' memoir Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (2000).

The film opened the 72nd Venice International Film Festival on 2 September 2015, and was released theatrically on 18 September 2015. It is based on the real events of the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, and focuses on the survival attempts of two expedition groups, one led by Rob Hall (Jason Clarke) and the other by Scott Fischer (Jake Gyllenhaal). Kormákur, Universal, Walden Media, Cross Creek and Working Title dedicated the 3D film to the late British actress Natasha Richardson.

It was first released in IMAX 3D on 11 September 2015, in the UK and in IMAX 3D, RealD 3D, and 2D internationally, and exclusively in IMAX 3D, 18 September 2015, across 545 theaters in the United States and Canada, and along 36 other countries. It began a U.S. wide release on 25 September 2015, across 3,006 theaters. The film received positive reviews from critics and grossed over $203 million worldwide.

Everest is a rock band from Los Angeles, California and Nashville, Tennessee, which consists of Russell Pollard (vocals, guitar, drums), Joel Graves (guitar, keyboards, vocals), Elijah Thomson ( bass, vocals), Aaron Lee Tasjan (guitar, vocals) and Dan Bailey (drums).

Everest cigarette is a cigarette brand, manufactured, distributed and market by the Zimbabwe arm of British American Tobacco company. Everest cigarette is also produced in Belgium, the Netherlands and South Africa. During the recording of Abbey Road, a 1969 album by Beatles, audio engineer Geoff Emerick used to smoke Everest's. The band liked the visual imagery of the packet and chose Everest as a working title for the album.

'Everest ' is a Hindi language Indian telenovela which began airing on STAR Plus on 3 November 2014. Directed by Glenn Baretto and Ankush Mohla and touted as "the most ambitious project on Indian television", Everest was created by Ashutosh Gowariker and produced by Ashutosh Gowariker Productions Private Limited (AGPPL). The show was formaly brodcasted at 10pm time slot. The music of the telenovela, which is Gowariker's television debut as a producer, was composed by A. R. Rahman. Everest is also the television debut of A. R. Rahman as a music composer and was shot in its entirety in India and Nepal. The shooting locations included Everest Base Camp (in Nepal) and the Dokriani Glacier (in India), which are located at a height of and above sea level, respectively.