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George Everest's student, Andrew Waugh, had surveyed and mapped Everest. When he had done so, there were several names by multiple cultures at the time. Some of these names include, but are not limited to Qomolangma, Zhumulangma, Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng, and Sagarmāthā. In order to simplify things, Waugh, as the surveyor and mapper of the mountain, decided to give the mountain an official name. In order to better understand Waugh's thoughts, this excerpt was taken from

"Papers relating to the Himalaya and Mount Everest", Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, no.IX pp.345-351, April-May 1857.

"I was taught by my respected chief and predecessor, Colonel Sir George Everest to assign to every geographical object its true local or native appellation. But here is a mountain, most probably the highest in the world, without any local name that we can discover, whose native appellation, if it has any, will not very likely be ascertained before we are allowed to penetrate into Nepal. In the meantime the privilege as well as the duty devolves on me to assign...a name whereby it may be known among citizens and geographers and become a household word among civilized nations."

Because Waugh could not determine what to do, he insisted that Everest be named after his mentor. George Everest did not agree with this adoption, but regardless of his opposition the Royal Geographical Society adopted the proposed name (proposed in 1857 by Andrew Waugh) in 1865. Oddly enough, the actual pronunciation of the mountain does not match that of George Everest's last name. George Everest's last name is actually pronounced Eve-rest opposed to the mountain's pronunciation of Everest. Nonetheless, the accustomed name has a long history as previously described.

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