Mt. Everest is also called "Goddess Mother of Snow" Mt.Everest is silently called as Peak "XV" Nepalese call Mt.Everest as "Sagamatha"
George Everest He was Surveyor General to India and the first person to measure the height of Everest. His name was actually pronounced Eve-rest but Everest has stuck. In Tibetan the mountain is called Chomolungma (Goddess Mother of the Earth) and in Nepalese Sagamatha (or that may be the other way around).