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Manila time is 12 hours ahead of New York time.

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Geographical Use of the Definite Article (The) With Country Names. Typically, the article the is not used before the names of countries and territories: Our flight to the China was canceled.

“North America” and “South America” are the proper nouns, names for two continents. So we won’t use “the” before them. In North America, 13 colonies united to form a nation. But India is a proper name.

In English, we use “the” if a country has a political title in its name, or if it refers a group of islands.

We do not use ‘the’ with the names of countries. So, ‘the’ will not be used before India, Pakistan, China, Sri Lanka, Indonesia. Exception: if the countries have the words ‘states, kingdom, republic’ we use ‘the’ before their name. For example: The United States of America, The United Kingdom, etc.

Why is the article ‘the’ used before Netherlands? Because the name is plural, meaning ‘the low(er) lands’. Like many other languages, Italian informally also uses the region Holland for the whole country (Olanda, olandese). We Dutch actually use a singular form to name our own country proper (Nederland).

Generally we use “the” when the mountain is one of the earlier named Alpine German loanwords — the Matterhorn, the Jungfrau, and so on.

Himalayas is the name given to a range of multiple or many mountains which consists of many smaller ranges of mountains, while Mount Everest is the name of a single Mountain within the Himalayas, hence “The” is not used for Mount Everest.

The general rule for “the” and proper nouns of location is as follows: Use the word “the” before the name of a place if: The place name has two or more words. One of the words in a place name is a common noun.

‘Mount Everest’ is a proper noun and cannot be said to be an unspecific thing. In this question, the adjective ‘tallest’ is qualifying the noun ‘mountain’ but ‘Mount Everest’ is not qualified by any adjective, thus we cannot use the Option A ‘the’ with it.

Noncount nouns are always in singular form. Water is a noncount noun. Therefore, according to the rules applying to noncount nouns, the word water would use no article or the, but not a. Following are the three specific rules which explain the use of definite and indefinite articles.

Use “the” with any noun when the meaning is specific; for example, when the noun names the only one (or one) of a kind. Adam was the first man (the only ‘first man’). New York is the largest city in the United States (only one city can be ‘the largest’). We live on the earth (the only Earth we know).

Mount Everest is the highest of the Himalayan mountains, and—at 8,849 meters (29,032 feet)—is considered the highest point on Earth. Mount Everest is a peak in the Himalaya mountain range. It is located between Nepal and Tibet, an autonomous region of China.

The body is believed by many to be that of Tsewang Paljor, an Indian climber who died on Everest in 1996. It still lies where it fell, and those who traverse the mountain’s north side can visit it in a limestone cave at 21,000 feet (8,500 meters) in elevation.

People die every year on Everest from falls, storms, avalanches, lack of oxygen, freezing or underlying health issues. But this year stood out because so many of the deaths happened while a climber was on the descent from the summit on clear weather days.

1988: French adventurer Jean-Marc Boivin was the first person to paraglide off Everest. He died 17 months later in a BASE-jumping accident. 2011: Two Nepalis, Sano Babu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tshiri Sherpa, flew off Mt Everest without permission, then kayaked down to the Indian Ocean.

Before Hillary and Tenzing successfully reached the summit, two other expeditions got close. Most famous of these was the 1924 climb of George Leigh Mallory (1886–1924) and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine (1902–1924). Many people still wonder if Mallory and Irvine might have been the first to make it to the top of Mount Everest.

The price range for a standard supported climb ranges from $28,000 to $85,000. A fully custom climb will run over $115,000 and those extreme risk-takers can skimp by for well under $20,000. Typically, this includes transportation from Kathmandu or Lhasa, food, base camp tents, Sherpa support, and supplemental oxygen.

Lhakpa Sherpa

However, it’s the Sherpas who guide foreign climbers all the way to the summit who make the most money, bringing home between $5,000 (£3,960) to $8,000 (£6,330) in a single season.