For over 150 years, scientists have tried to determine the exact height of Mount Everest. To resolve this issue once and for all, Nepal has ordered a new survey of the world's highest mountain.
The peak was named after British surveyor George Everest in 1856. The story goes that in 1852 Radhanath Sikhdar, a mathematician, working for the Great Trigonometric Survey of India, he discovered what he thought was the highest in the world. Many years later, this has been confirmed and, despite the mountain being already call Chomolungma by Tibetans from Nepalese and Sagarmatha, the British decided the name after Colonel George Everest, head of the survey (although he was always a little embarrassed for the honour).
In 1865 the mountain-formerly known as peak XV by the English Wikipedia was officially renamed Everest.
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