The geology of Everest is simple as described in literature. It is an enormous wedge of sediment that used to be at the bottom of the Tethys Sea. It has been subjected to low grade metamorphism and has been lifted at an enormous rate (10 cm a year compared to the Alps at 1cm a year) between two faults; one near the top of Everest, the other in the vicinity of Base Camp, both dipping north at low angles. The enormous height of Everest is due to the collision rate of India and Asia, which is the fastest of any continental collision.

"1. The Khumbu valley is made up of the Higher-Himalayan and Tethys Himalayan morph-tectonic belts of the Himalayas.

2. The rock sequences of the Khumbu valley represent a tectonically simple, undisturbed and normal Higher Himalayan and Tethys Himalayan succession, the latter succeed broadly transitionally the former.

3. The Higher Himalayan successions are extremely migmatised. The  unmigmatised part of the rocks indicated that the sequence was originally a sedimentary one.

4. The metamorphism of the Higher Himalaya was of Barrovian type and it is normal, dying out structurally upwards in the Tethys Himalayan succession.

5. Nuptse granite is an intrusive granite sill intruded in the Tertiary period. It is not involved into any major tectonisation.

6. Regionally, folds of Himalayan trend and folds of transeverse orientation have been developed in the Khumbu region.

7. Minor structural  study has shown at least four generation of compressional orogenic folds in the region. Two of the fold episodes orient at perpendicular disposition to the Himalayan trend.