“Harder to spot from space than you might think: Earth's tallest mountain: Everest,” he said in a tweet.
He had asked Dave MacLean at the Centre of Geographic Sciences (COGS) to confirm he had snapped the right mountain.
Disabled Xia to attempt Mt Everest for fifth time
Harder to spot from space than you might think: Earth's tallest mountain:
Everest! (thx @DaveAtCOGS for confirming) pic.twitter.com/YB2emuEgAd
— Tim Peake (@astro_timpeake) April 7, 2016