Peak XV

English

Alternative forms

• Peak 15

Proper noun

Peak XV

1. (historical) Synonym of Mount Everest.
   • 1856 March 1, A[ndrew] S[cott] Waugh, “1. Papers Relating to the Himalaya and Mount Everest. A. By Lieutenant-Colonel A. S. Waugh, Surveyor-General of India, dated Dehra, March 1st, 1856; […]”, in Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London, volume I, number IX, London: Edward Stanford, […] [for the Royal Geographical Society], published 11 May 1857, →OCLC, pages 345–346:

     The revision has proceeded to some extent, and I am now in possession of the final values for the peak designated XV in the list in the Office of the Surveyor-General of India. […] Mont Everest, or Himalaya Peak XV.

   • 2002, Joy Masoff, “Chronology”, in Everest: Reaching for the Sky‎^[1], Macmillan/McGraw-Hill, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 45:

     1856 A survey of India finds that Peak XV in the Himalayas is the world's tallest mountain.

   • 2005, Kevin Patrick Grant, “Exploring the Top of the World”, in Exploration in the Age of Empire, 1750-1953‎^[2], Facts on File, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, pages 126–127:

     In the course of this massive survey project, the surveyor-general of India, Andrew Waugh, reported to the Royal Geographical Society in 1856 that Peak XV of the Himalayas was the highest mountain known to man, at 29,002 feet. This peak would subsequently become known as Mount Everest.