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The new measurement of Mount Everest shows that it is 8,848.86 meters high, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi announced in a joint video conference with the Nepalese government, the Associated Press and DPA reported, as quoted by BTA.
The new measurement is based on trigonometric and GPS measurements made by China and Nepal. Nepal sent a team of researchers to the summit in May 2019 and China, its experts, earlier this year.
For the first time, Nepal is making independent measurements in the context of speculation about a possible change in the height of the Himalayan peak due to global warming and the 2015 earthquake.
So far, Nepal has recognized 8,848 meters as the official snow height of the highest peak in the world, measured by Indian experts in the 1950s.
The new number shows a little more than the height recognized by Nepal so far and about four meters more than the one adopted so far by China of 8844.43 meters without snow cover.
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