In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

Mount Everest, a peak in the Himalayan mountain range, is at a height of 8850 metres above sea level and is considered the (1)______ point on earth. While it is called Chomo-Lungma, or “Mother Goddess of the Land,” (2)______ the Tibetans, the people of Nepal call it Sagarmatha. The British named the mountain (3)______ Sir George Everest, a 19th-century British surveyor of South Asia. The Everest is believed to be over 60 billion years old. Although the first (4)______ to climb Mount Everest was made in 1921, it was not successful. It was on 29th May, 1953, that Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first men to (5)______ the summit of this mountain.