Would It Be Feasible to Hollow Mount Everest Into a Palace?

Let's say that some Oriental emperor had decreed that he should move his palatial residence from China to Everest. Specifically, he wanted Mount Everest to be his palace, which means hollowing the entirety of the mountain, pretty much a human equivalent to Erebor.

Let me clarify on where I'm going with that question--the emperor would not hear any complaints regarding the process--how much time and manpower it'd take to hollow out a five-and-a-half-mile tall mountain, how to deal with lower temperature, thinner air and higher UV radiation.

This question would, instead, focus on one other problem, one that wouldn't be recognized until the 1960s--Everest is an active mountain, prone to earthquakes, landslides and avalanches. If you hollow out a tectonically active mountain, would that worsen the earthquakes, landslides and avalanches that we'd associate with such peaks?

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