English

Proper noun

Zhumulangma

1. Alternative form of Chomolungma, the Tibetan name for Mount Everest.
   • 1999, Marshall R. Crosby, Moss Flora of China, Volume 2, Science Press, page vii:

     It [China] has three terraces from the eastern coast to the Qinghai-Xizang plateau in the west, with the highest altitude of 8,848 meters at the peak of Zhumulangma (Mount Everest), the so-called “roof of the world.”

   • 2009, Pingxian Wang and Qianyu Li, introduction to The South China Sea: Paleoceanography and Sedimentology, Springer, ISBN 978-1-4020-9744-7, page 1:

     Geomorphologically, the SCS lies to the east of the highest peak on earth, Zhumulangma or Everest in the Himalayas (8,848 m elevation) and to the west of the deepest trench in the ocean, Philippine Trench (10,497 m water depth) (Wang P. 2004).