Mount Everest is named after this person, he measured the world’s highest peak from Mussoorie itself
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Everyone knows about the world’s highest peak i.e. Mount Everest. But do you know that Mount Everest was named after a person who told the height and exact location of many high peaks of the world.
The surprising thing is that this was told when there was no GPS, no satellite in the world. This person measured the height of many high peaks with his tools, math and mind at that time. Let’s know about him in this article (Sir George Everest).
Mount Everest is named after Sir George Everest
The person we are talking about is Sir George Everest. Today is also his birthday. Born on July 4 in the UK, Sir George Everest came to India in 1806. He stayed in Mussoorie and discovered many high peaks of the world. Mount Everest also got its name from Sir George Everest. Earlier Mount Everest was called Peak 15. Sir George Everest was the first to tell the correct height and location of Everest. Due to which, on the recommendation of British surveyor Andrew Waugh, this peak was named after him in 1865.
Sir George Everest’s relation with Dehradun
Sir George Everest was also related to George Everest mountain of Dehradun. Sir George Everest spent most of his life in George Everest of Mussoorie. His survey team used to take measurements of many high peaks of India from George Everest of Mussoorie and locate them at the right place on the map.
- Sir George Everest was the Surveyor General of India from 1830 to 1843.
- In the year 1861, Sir George was appointed as the Commander of the ‘Order of the Bath’.
Sir George Everest died in 1866 in Hyde Park Garden, London. But his name forever became immortal in the world’s highest peak Mt. EVEREST. If you haven’t visited Mussoorie yet and seen the place from where the story of Everest began? Then let us tell you that his house and that lab are still present in Mussoorie and it is now under the responsibility of the tourism department.
