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 "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves."
– Sir Edmund Hillary
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Mount Everest is a three-tile impassable natural wonder in Civilization VI. Mount Everest appears as a Mountain, and may be found on Desert, Grassland, Plains, and Tundra tiles (often surrounded by regular Mountains). Each wonder tile provides +1 Faith Faith and +2 Appeal to adjacent tiles.

A religious unit that moves adjacent to Mount Everest receives the Altitude Training ability, which allows it to traverse Hills without Movement Movement penalties.

In Civilization VI: Rise and Fall, discovering Mount Everest grants +1 Era Score, or +3 Score if the player is the first to do so.

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Natural Wonder Mount Everest bonuses (Civ6)

An illustration of Mount Everest's bonuses

Each Mount Everest tile provides +1 Faith Faith to adjacent non-wonder tiles (see diagram). However, as with all impassable wonders, the individual wonder tiles of Mount Everest offer no benefits, and cannot be developed or improved. Mount Everest is usually most effective when it is near the outskirts of a city (or even slightly beyond its borders), since the wonder tiles themselves are functionally dead space (especially given Mount Everest's tendency to spawn in a cluster of other non-workable Mountains), and their yields aren't that impressive after you found your Pantheon, either. If a city is strategically placed in this fashion, it receives the adjacency benefits of the wonder and you can easily move your religious units to Mount Everest to receive the special Promotion Promotion without sacrificing valuable space.

Mount Everest's tiles count as Mountains, so Holy Sites next to them receive doubled benefits! A Holy Site next to two Mount Everest tiles receives at least 6 Faith Faith starting adjacency (4 Faith Faith from 2 tiles of natural wonder, 2 Faith Faith from those tiles being Mountains). If you're playing as Australia, that Holy Site will receive an additional 3 Faith Faith for being on a tile with high Appeal. Considering the formation of Mount Everest, you can settle 3 cities and build 3 Holy Sites this way, and maybe pick the Work Ethic belief to get those cities off to a good start!

Note that the wonder tiles can be incorporated into National Parks - if a player wishes to found a Park, then it may be more efficient to place the city closer to the wonder.

Civilopedia entry[]

Mount Everest - called in Tibetan "holy mother," or Qomolangma, is the world’s tallest mountain, standing 8848 meters (29029 feet) above sea level, and part of the Himalaya range. It is one of the “hidden valleys of refuge” designated by the 9th Century Buddhist savant Padmasambhava, and killer of over 250 would-be conquerors since 1922. In 1802 AD, the British launched the Great Trigonometric Survey of India using giant theodolites to determine the highest peaks in the world. A half-century later, in 1858, the Surveyor General of India, Andrew Waugh, announced conclusively that Peak XV (that is, Everest) was the highest. And adventurers have been trying to climb it ever since... “Because it’s there.”

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Civilization VI Wonders [edit]
Wonders AlhambraAmundsen-Scott Research Station Angkor Wat1Apadana1Big BenBiosphère1Bolshoi TheatreBroadwayCasa de Contratación Chichen ItzaColosseumColossusCristo RedentorEiffel TowerEstádio do MaracanãEtemenanki1Forbidden CityGolden Gate Bridge Great Bath Great LibraryGreat LighthouseGreat ZimbabweHagia SophiaHanging GardensHermitageHuey Teocalli1Jebel Barkal1Kilwa Kisiwani Kotoku-in Machu Picchu Mahabodhi TempleMausoleum at Halicarnassus1Meenakshi Temple Mont St. MichelOracleOrszágház Oxford UniversityPanama Canal PetraPotala PalacePyramidsRuhr ValleyStatue of Liberty Statue of Zeus1St. Basil's Cathedral StonehengeSydney Opera HouseTaj Mahal Temple of Artemis Terracotta ArmyTorre de Belém1University of Sankore Venetian Arsenal
Natural wonders Bermuda Triangle1Chocolate Hills Cliffs of DoverCrater LakeDead SeaDelicate Arch Eye of the Sahara Eyjafjallajökull1Fountain of Youth1Galápagos IslandsGiant's Causeway1Gobustan Great Barrier ReefHạ Long Bay1Ik-Kil Kakadu2Lake Retba Lysefjord1Mato Tipila Matterhorn Mount EverestMount KilimanjaroMount Roraima Mount Vesuvius Païtiti1Pamukkale PantanalPinnacles2PiopiotahiSahara el Beyda Torres del PaineTsingy de BemarahaUbsunur Hollow Uluru1Vinland2YosemiteZhangye Danxia
1 Requires DLC2 Specific scenarios only
Added in the Rise and Fall expansion pack.
Added in the Gathering Storm expansion pack.