Peak 15

English Etymology A designation from the Trigonometrical Survey of India, a British geographic survey of British India. Proper noun Peak mul 15 en @alt spell:Peak XV @fmr of:Mount Everest mountain range/Himalayas r/South Asia on the border of c:also/Nepal,China in ar:also/Tibet. en 1999 Steve Jenkins The Top of the World: Climbing Mount Everest https://archive.org/details/topofworldclimbi0000jenk/ 978-0-618-19676-0 40135234 Peak 15 was renamed in honor of Sir George Everest, the first leader of the British survey, a mapping expedition to the Himalayas. en 2007 w:Russell T. McCutcheon What's in a Name? Studying Religion: An Introduction https://archive.org/details/studyingreligion0000mccu/ 2014 w:Routledge 978-1-84553-011-2 967778813 8-9 https://archive.org/details/studyingreligion0000mccu/page/8/ By 1856 it was clear to Waugh that Peak 15 was indeed the highest mountain as yet discovered in the world and he intended to honor his predecessor, the man who began the Great Trigonometrical Survey in the earliest years of the nineteenth century, by naming Peak 15 after him. en