11+ What Mount Is Mountain Everest Located PNG. In the nineteenth century, the mountain was named after george everest. Everest is situated in the mahalangur range on the tibetan plateau known as qing zang gaoyuan.
Mount everest is located in a small landlocked south asian country named nepal.
It literally means the top or the head of the sky. Mount everest is known as sagarmatha in nepali. So how can it lay claim to being the highest mountain in the world? All mountain madness lead guides on mount everest have made successful ascents on the mountain.