Mount Everest: New Year Views | International Space Station

Mount Everest: New Year Views | International Space Station

Expedition 74 flight engineer and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman: "Chomolungma, Everest from space. My first photo from our first orbit in 2026 was of sunrise painting the Himalaya. It’s a place I’ve never been, though I hope this isn’t the closest I’ll ever get to such mountains. From this distance, even Earth’s tallest peaks look like not much more than a wrinkled bedsheet, but my imagination is easily lost in the view. What incredible sculptures by the artist time. I’m left feeling both very big and very small, all at once. Happy New Year to all on my favorite planet!"

Mount Everest (known locally as Sagarmāthā[a] in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. Its height was most recently measured in 2020 by Chinese and Nepali authorities as 8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8+1⁄2 in).

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Expedition 74 Crew

Station Commander: Mike Fincke (NASA)

JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Oleg Platonov, Sergey-Kud Sverchkov, Sergei Mikaev

NASA Flight Engineers: Zena Cardman, Chris Williams

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Image Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/ Z. Cardman 
Release Date: Jan. 5, 2026

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