The Only Use of
Mt. Everest
in
To Kill a Mockingbird
- Had I ever harbored the mystical notions about mountains that seem to obsess lawyers and judges, Aunt Alexandra would have been analogous to Mount Everest: throughout my early life, she was cold and there.
p. 89.0Mount Everest = highest mountain peak in the world
Definition:
a mountain in the central Himalayas on the border of Tibet and Nepal; the highest mountain peak in the world (29,028 feet high)