| NEPAL | Location of Mount Everest |
| TIBET | The highest region on Earth, location of the north side of Mount Everest, or Qomolangma (the third goddess) as it is known locally (5) |
| HILLARY | One of the first humans to reach the summit of Mount Everest (7) |
| PEAK | Top of Mount Everest |
| TIBETAN | Like one side of Mount Everest |
| HIMALAYAN | Of Mount Everest region |
| SHERPA | Tenzing Norgay, who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary, is often referred to as |
| SIREDMUND | With Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, he was the first to reach the summit of Mount Everest, ... Hillary (3,6) |
| TENZING | Sherpa who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953 (7,6) |
| NORGAY | Sherpa who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953 (7,6) |
| MINT | Kendal - cake; food eaten by Sir Edmund Hillary on his ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 (4) |
| MARS | Fourth planet from the Sun whose volcano Olympus Mons is around three times the height of Mount Everest (4) |
| MESSNER | Reinhold, Italian mountaineer and explorer who made the first solo ascent of Mount Everest in 1980 (7) |
| METAVERSE | Tip of Mount Everest - a new, unreal world (9) |
| EDMUND | New Zealand mountaineer who made the first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 with Sherpa climber Tenzing Norgay (6) |
| TENZINGNORGAY | Sherpa who reached the summit of Mount Everest with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953 |
| NORTHFACE | Section of Mount Everest featuring the Norton Couloir (5,4) |
| SOUTHDAKOTA | US state, location of Mount Rushmore (5,6) |
| ALASKARANGE | Location of Mount McKinley |
| TANZANIA | East African country; location of Mount Kilimanjaro (8) |
