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olonel Sir George Everest was said to be a very grumpy civil servant. When his successor named a large mountain in Nepal in honour of the former Surveyor General of India, Sir George took serious offence.

The move was meant as a tribute to the geographer – his moniker put forward by the newly installed Andrew Scott Waugh, who himself made the first official observations of the Himalayan mountain in the 1850s.

The Royal Geographical Society had struggled to give Peak XV a name because of problems finding a native alternative that was easily pronounced. Chomolungma and Sagarmatha were two options.

It is not known if Sir George himself ever actually saw the great mountain, untamed by man for almost...