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The height of Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world, is increasing. The previous 748 meters will now be 747.6 meters.
Several countries disagreed on the height of Everest. But overcoming those differences, Nepal’s height of 6,748 meters is acceptable.
On the other hand, the height of the Everest peak was 844.43 meters according to the measurement of China, the country bordering Everest.
This time, the two neighboring countries, China and Nepal, reached a new height in a joint survey and measurement. News from The Independent.
In 2019 and 2020, both Nepal and China send their own surveyors. The height of Everest is measured again.
As a result of the new size, the height of China has increased by about 4 meters from the previous size, and the size of Nepal has increased by 6 centimeters. Concerns about the height of Everest have been created since 2015.
Everest was thought to have shrunk after a major earthquake that year. But in the end, it has gotten a bit longer.
There has been a long-standing dispute over the exact size of Mount Everest. But after the measurement by George Everest, the Surveyor General of undivided India, after whom Everest was named, 848 meters became acceptable starting in the 1950s.
In 1986, Italian experts set a new height of 82 meters for the top of Everest. In 1999, a survey conducted by the United States using the GPS system again reached 650 meters.
In 2005, China again measured the height of the summit of Everest at 744.43 meters. But Nepal did not meet China’s demand, as some of the icebergs were left out.
The latest agreement between China and Nepal puts an end to doubts about the height of Mount Everest. Because the two countries border next to the summit of Mount Everest.
Chinese President Xi Jinping says the two countries agreed to jointly cooperate on environmental protection and scientific research on both sides of Everest.
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