NEPAL Mount Everest -- The summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest (centre right), which towers 8848 metres above sea level in the Khumbu Himal of Nepal.

NEPAL Mount Everest -- The summit of the world's highest mountain, Mount Everest (centre right), which towers 8848 metres above sea level in the Khumbu Himal of Nepal. Pictured here peeping over the Lhotse Massif as seen from further down the Dudh Khosi valley. It was first summited by Tenzing Norgay and Sir Edmund Hillary on the 29 May 1953 -- Picture by Jon Mitchell / Lightroom Photos