Why not consider the Nepalese name, “Sagarmatha?
There are two reasons that we submit to the public for the selection of Qomolangma over that of Sagarmatha. First, historically the entire region surrounding Qomolangma had been part of an atonomous group of people united not by nationality but by regional status and ethnicity. This region is now part of Nepal and Tibet, but the local populations, notably the Sherpa, knew the mountain as “Chomolungma”, which is identical in pronunciation and meaning to “Qomolangma.” The next reason is that Nepal had coined the term “Sagarmatha” in the early 1960’s, nearly a full century after the mountain had been named Mt. Everest, because of their own desire to unify Nepal and separate its own self-identity from other countries. Because of this situation, the local residents of the Qomolangma region are, in general, against the idea of using Sagarmatha, even those of Nepalese citizenship. MountQ.org certainly would never presume a country’s perogative over naming geographical landmarks under their ow
