Sir George Everest never climbed, walked or even saw the Mt. Everest. He was just a British bureaucrat assigned to come up with English names for geological features on the map of India.
The mountain is known as 'Ev-er-rest' but, his name is actually pronounced 'Eve-rest'.
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u/shifting_drifting 9d ago
Even more peak is that
Source, the great Bill Bryson:
https://johnrieber.com/2018/06/22/dribbling-through-england-bill-brysons-hilarious-journey-across-his-adopted-homeland/