Question: Which mountain is Earth's highest peak, Ghent Kangri, or Mount Everest?

Context articles: Ghent Kangri
Gheorghe Dijmărescu
South Summit (Mount Everest)
Sherpi Kangri
Poorna: Courage Has No Limit
Joint Himalayan Committee
Erwin Emata
Mount Everest
1996 Mount Everest disaster
Subhash Pal

Ghent Kangri (or Mount Ghent, Ghaint I) is a high peak near the north end of the Saltoro Mountains, a subrange of the Karakoram range.
 It is located west of the Siachen Glacier in an area under Pakistan control, but very close to the Actual Ground Position Line with India.
Gheorghe Dijmărescu (commonly known as George Dijmarescu) is a Romanian-American famous for escaping from the Romanian Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu by swimming the Danube river, and for his mountaineering exploits including summiting Mount Everest multiple times in the early 2000s.
 Gheorghe married Lhakpa Sherpa in 2002, the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive and also the woman with most number of times to the summit of Mount Everest in the early 21st century.
 They met in Kathmandu in the year 2000.
 From 2008 he had some battles with medical problems.
 Some of Dijmărescu's life was included in the Michael Kodas book "High Crimes", a book about a Mount Everest expedition in the early 2000s.
 Dijmărescu organized a 2004 Connecticut expedition to Mount Everest.
The South Summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the second-highest peak on Earth, and is a subsidiary peak to the primary peak of Mount Everest.
 Although its elevation above sea level of 8749 m is higher than the second-highest mountain on Earth, K2 (whose summit is 8611 m above sea level), it is only considered a separate peak and not a separate mountain as its prominence is only 11 meters.
Sherpi Kangri is a mountain peak in the Karakoram Range.
 It lies five km south of Ghent Kangri (7,380 m) and ten km northwest of Saltoro Kangri (7,742 m).
Poorna Malavath (Aditi Inamdar) belongs to a Telugu speaking tribal family in Pakala, Nizamabad district in the Telangana state of India.
 Her parents (mother Lakshmi and father Devidas) are farm labourers.
 She joins the State Social Welfare Residential Educational Institutions Society for her education.
 Her talent is spotted by the un-corrupt secretary of the Society Dr. R. S. Praveen Kumar (Rahul Bose).
 The chief minister N. Kiran Kumar Reddy (Harsha Vardhan) authorises her for Operation Everest along with a Dalit mountaineer, Sandhanapalli Anand Kumar (Manoj Kumar).
 In preparation for climbing Mount Everest headed by Coach Shekhar Babu (Gyanendra Tripathi) and Colonel Khan (Arif Zakaria), she treks to mountains of Ladakh and Darjeeling.
 On 25 May 2014, Poorna scales the highest peak of Mount Everest and, aged 13 years and 11 months, becomes one of the youngest girl in the world to have reached the summit of Everest.
The Mount Everest Committee was a body formed by the Alpine Club and the Royal Geographical Society to co-ordinate and finance the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition to Mount Everest and all subsequent British expeditions to climb the mountain until 1947.
 It was then renamed the Joint Himalayan Committee; this latter committee organized and financed the successful first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.
Erwin "Pastor" Emata (born 1973 in Davao City) is a mountain climber.
 Based on The Himalayan Database  published by American Alpine Club , Erwin is the third Filipino to reach the peak of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world.
 Like Leo Oracion, the second Filipino to reach Mount Everest's summit, he is a member of the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition (FPMEE).
 The Himalayan DataBase published by American Alpine Club had included Leo in the list of Everest South summitteers for 2006 on May 17, officially recognizing him as the 2nd Filipino on top Mount Everest.
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
 The international border between China (Tibet Autonomous Region) and Nepal runs across its summit point.
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996, when eight people caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest during attempts to descend from the summit.
 Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest day and year on Mount Everest before the 16 fatalities of the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche and the 18 deaths resulting from avalanches caused by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.
 The 1996 disaster gained wide publicity and raised questions about the commercialization of Everest.
Subhash Pal was an Indian mountaineer, from Bankura, West Bengal.
 He died on 22 May 2016 while returning, after reaching the summit of Mount Everest (8,849 metre) on 21 May 2016.
 He was the first mountaineer from Bankura to scale Mt Everest.
 He was in the same team of other three Bengali climbers Sunita Hazra, Paresh Nath and Goutam Ghosh.
 Only Sunita Hazra returned back alive from his team.
 Subash Pal had reached the 8,849-metre summit on Saturday but collapsed while descending the Hillary Step ice wall.
 He died in the region between Camp IV and Camp III.
 Pal is the fifth climber to have died while attempting to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak at 8,850 metres in spring 2016.
 Subash Pal lost his life due to frostbite which later led to hypothermia.