Everest the Ultimate Test

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A Bengali mathematician, Radhanath Sikdar, first discovered Everest as the highest peak on Earth in 1852. Before it was called Everest it had gone by many other names. The people of Nepal called the mountain Sagarmatha (goddess of the sky), while the people of Tibet referred to it as Chomolungma (mother of the universe)...
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To the rest of the world it was known as peak XV. It was not until Sikdar, stationed in the Indian station Dehra Dun, first calculated that Everest was the highest peak that anyone really paid attention to it. In Jon Krakauer's book, "Into Thin Air" he explains what it might have felt like the day Sikdar finishes his calculations, "A clerk rushed into the chambers of Sir Andrew Waugh, India's surveyor general, and exclaimed that a Bengali computer named Radhanath Sikhdar had "discovered" the worlds highest mountain...
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