Complete the text with suitable prepositions.
Mount Everest is (a) ______ the Himalayan Mountains, (b) ______ the border between Nepal and China. It was named (c) ______ George Everest, who served as Surveyor General of India (d) ______ the nineteenth century. Climbing it is difficult because of snow slides and cracks (e) ______ the ice. (f) ______ weeks (g) ______ difficult climbing, Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay reached the summit (h) ______ 29 May 1953. They went down in history (i) ______ the first climbers known to have reached the summit (j) ______ the world’s highest mountain.