Excellent collective groan from the audience there :)

Rich Hall has some brilliant answers on QI!

Actually, just because he said that Everest was two feet higher than what it was, there is no way to say where he added the two feet. He could, therefore, have added two feet to the bottom, just as Rich said.

0:38 Bill bailey looks completely amazed by Alan here, its brilliant

RIP and long live Sean Lock (April 22, 1963 - August 16, 2021), aged 58 You will always be remembered as a legend.

Karl Pilkington teaches us it was really named Everest because when you climb it, you need to 'ave a rest.

Nobody has ever put any feet on top of mt Everest, since it's always covered in a couple of feet of ice and snow. Also, Everest is just what we call it. But it's been named by the locals centuries ago. The Tibetan name is Chomolungma, which means “Mother Goddess of the World.” The Nepali name is Sagarmatha, which has various meanings.

"He kept changing his height". Underrated joke :)

Bit of Everest trivia: "Everest" was one of the album titles the Beatles considered for the album that became "Abbey Road"

Why was my first thought about two disembodied feet?

Technically speaking because Everest grows in height every year because of tectonic plates the last person is the first person.

“The tallest nanny”.

0:17 Sean Lock is just funny without trying

Mt everest is very hilly

Watch "The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain" and you'll think the Everest extension may have been the inspiration.

the 2' thing is just crazy enough to be true. I think we can also be safe in assuming that the Sherp's had climbed Everest long before Hillary and Norgay climbed it. Then, of course, Hillary "documented" it, solidfying his place in history. While the Sherpas continue to exclaim "what ever" Also, I did find an interview with Hillary who was asked the same (we think reasonable) question, "who actually summitted first?" His response was fascinating. He explained that when climbers climb, they are roped together for mutual safety and communication. So, when climbers summit, the entire "rope" is given credit for the summiting. The identity of the actual (first) climber is considered misleading and irrelevant.

I believe Churchill’s nanny was named Everest. And she’s here today!

The bloke who measured it more accurately.

Tall tale indeed.

Ah, the joyous floccinaucinihilipilification of our broadened horizons, courtesy of QI!

Made me think: If & when I get to top of the mt., I'm gonna jump straight up as high as I can and thus I will have gotten higher on Everest than *anyone ever*!

Doesn't that include the snow and ice coverage rather than where the rock stops? If that's the case someone could just shovel a load of snow into a 3ft high pile and stand on that.

VOLUME control. damn it

Those are nice facts I didn't know

Isn't it still rising?

I initially thought it was going to be something really morbid like if you piled up all the dead bodies on Mt Everest, it would come to two feet. But then I learned there’s a lot of those so it would be more then two feet.Then I realised I must be pretty messed up considering that was my first thought. 😬

Ye good old QI

Peak 15? Mass Effect flashbacks

Haven't folks from Tibet been climbing it for centuries?

If you want to be that technical then he wasn't the first person to put two feet on the top of Everest. The top is Everest is 29,028 feet and he put two feet at 29,000 feet.

Did Churchill ever put 2 feet on his nanny?

So how should we pronounce it now?

The metric system: use it. Sincerely, The rest of the world

Aside from anything else, you shouldn't say "mount Everest" because it's a rather indecorous instruction.

Stephen's line on 1:06. Is it a reference to something?

Not too sure about this, if the measurement was taken from 150 miles away, the curve distance of the earth would obscure 14405.4769 feet or 2.72 miles.

a question that doesn't work with standard units

And yet for people who use the metric system, this problem never existed at all.

He could've just converted it to metres lol

Why didn't he just say "29,000.12ft" still precise... but also still 29k ft

A sea gull

Guessing prior to watching: I'd have to say ... unknown. Prolly a local many years in the past. .. Post Watching:

How do they actually measure the height though? I know it's the height above sea level, but sea level varies a lot between different parts of the globe. For example, nearby heavy ground (like continental shelves) will attract more water by gravity, which raises the sea level in that area. Rotation of the Earth is another one, sea level due to gravity is higher where the closest ocean is (the northern part of the Indian ocean) than sea level *would* be if there was an ocean where the Himalayas are. Obviously there is no ocean in the Himalayas, so you don't really know which hypothetical sea level to measure to. So how do they decide how high the "sea level" that they measure down to is?

The things you learn from QI. Here, I learned that for once, Czechs actually pronounce an English name correctly and the English don't.

That was the most godawful pun I've ever heard on this show. 2 feet. Hillarious tho

Nah, I don't call it Everest, anyway. You should be calling it by its native name: Beeg'Fah Keenrawk.

A seagull

Surely the locals might have noticed the mountain and named it something before the British decided to invade the region. Maybe we can call the mountain by it’s local name?

2018 be like: NANI?!

Men have been adding two feet to their height since imperial measurements were invented!

This is my favourite TV show. But there is one thing I find very annoying - making jokes of CORRECT way to pronounce words. You see Everest is Everest as Pythagoras is also not a British name and is not pronounced like pie... There are more languages in the world that English and they are mostly older ;)

Probably the same man that decided that one moon was too precise as well. . . .

I was gonna say "nobody, because there isn't enough room for both feet at the absolute peak."

Alan with his arms wide open... i.e. he's thinking of breasts. And now I only want him to come read this comment, as he sure as hell knows it's the truth. ''Tallest'' Nanny to him is the greatest God-send, despite there being no God and no belief on the part of Alan Davies in an existent God.

And its not the highest mountain in the world. Above sea level maybe

Why do they use feet if they're British?

It'd be tenuous standing with both one's "two feet" together on top of the very summit if it is as pointed as portrayed. Surely someone has done it though. 👣🏔⛏