The Royal Geographical Society named Mount Everest after a Welsh surveyor and geographer, Colonel Sir George Everest in 1865. But the common way we say it now is not the way he pronounced his name.

and in 1856 it had been named after Sir George Everest, former surveyorgeneral of British India. It was known to be holy to the people living around it, it looked celestial from afar, and so it ...