THE SILENT SCHOOLBOY - RODIN

Neighbourhoods are like human beings. They are born, grow up, become handsome or ugly, change their outward appearance, and age without forfeiting their personality. The same spirit lives on in them.

MOUNT EVEREST AND KALA PATTAR

Mount Everest : aka Limbu Chajamlangm or Mount Chomolungma, is the world's highest mountain above sea level at 8,850 metres (29,035 ft high) of the central Himalayas on the Nepel, border of Xizang (Tibet) and Nepal.

The highest elevation in the world, it was first scaled in 1953 by members of an expedition including Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

Everest Mount (29,029 848m as officially recognised by China and Nepal, rock height only, 29,016ft/8,844m. In 1999 American Climbers using GPS measured the Everest's total height at 29,035 ft (8,850m), but that measurement has not been accepted by Nepal or China.

Called Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Mother Goddess of the Land) by Tibetans and Sagarmatha (Head of the Sea) by Nepalis, it is named in English for the surveyor Sir George Everest. It was first climbed on May 28 1953, when Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit. The body of George H L Mallory who died in an earlier attempt (1924) was found on the mountain in 1999.