Mount Everest Pictures

Here are some amazing Mount Everest pictures. You can make any of these images into your computer desktop wallpaper. Just click on an image to enlarge it, and then choose “Set as Desktop Background”.

This amazing photo of Mt. Everest and the adjacent Mount Makalu was captured from the International Space Station on January 28, 2004 during the Expedition 8 mission. Mt. Everest is the highest mountain on Earth with a height of 8,848 meters above sea level.

Here’s another image of Mount Everest. This image was taken by GeoEye’s Ikonos satellite on November 29, 2001. Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were the first men to reach the peak of Mount Everest on May 28, 1953.

This nice picture of Mt. Everest was taken on November 26, 2003 from the International Space Station by a crew member of the Expedition 8 mission. Mt. Everest is one of the mountains found in the Himalayan mountain range.

Here’s an image of Mt. Everest taken from the International Space Station on March 20, 2002 by Astronaut Dan Bursch of Expedition 4. Mt. Everest is also known as Qomolangma Peak in Tibetan, Mount Sagarmatha in Nepali, Chajamlungma in Limbu, and Zhumulangma Peak in Chinese.

This image of Mt. Everest was captured on October 1993 by astronauts from the International Space Station during the STS-58 mission of the Space Shuttle Columbia. STS-58 mission was dedicated to life science researches.

We have written many articles about Mount Everest for Universe Today. Here’s an article about the tallest mountain in the world, and here’s an article about an astronaut reaching the peak of Everest.

If you’d like more Mount Everest pictures, check out Visible Earth Homepage. And here’s a link to NASA’s Earth Observatory.

We’ve also recorded an episode of Astronomy Cast all about planet Earth. Listen here, Episode 51: Earth.

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