What are the characteristics of Mount Everest?

Mount Everest is in the shape of a huge pyramid. It is magnificent, the terrain is extremely steep and the environment is very complicated. Snow line height: 5800 ~ 6200m on the north slope and 5500 ~ 6 100m on the south slope. There are three steep walls (north wall, east wall and southwest wall) between Northeast Ridge, Southeast Ridge and Xishan Ridge.

Between these ridges and cliffs, there are 548 continental glaciers with a total area of1457.07km2 and an average thickness of 7260m. The replenishment of glaciers is mainly formed by the snow metamorphism in the two major precipitation zones of the Indian Ocean monsoon belt. There are various, magnificent and rare ice towers on the glacier, ice cliffs as high as tens of meters, light and dark ice cracks with traps step by step, and dangerous ice collapse areas.

Mount Everest is not only magnificent, but also magnificent. There are many peaks and mountains within 20 kilometers around it. There are more than 40 peaks above 7000 meters above sea level. The famous ones are Luozi Peak (8516m above sea level, the fourth highest peak in the world) and Zhuoqiong Peak (7589m above sea level), and Makaru Peak in the southeast (8463m above sea level, the fifth highest peak in the world).

Extended data:

The Himalayan region where Mount Everest is located used to be an ocean. In the long geological age, a large number of gravels and sediments washed down from the land accumulated in the Himalayan region, forming a marine sedimentary rock layer with a thickness of more than 30 thousand meters. Later, due to the strong orogeny, the Himalayan region was squeezed and lifted violently. According to estimates, the average increase is 20-30 meters per 1 10,000 years. Up to now, the Himalayan region is still rising, rising by 7 cm every 100 years.

With the passage of time, the height of Mount Everest will change constantly because of the movement of geographical plates. Interestingly, although Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world, its summit is not the farthest point from the center of the earth. This special point belongs to Chimborazo Mountain in South America. The majestic image of Mount Everest has always had a great influence in the local area and even in the world.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Everest