A joint survey of Nepal and China has said that Mount Everest is 86 cm higher than previously thought.
Kathmandu:
Nepal and China jointly announced today that the revised height of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, was 8,848.86 meters, about 0.86 meters or 86 centimeters higher than the previous measurement made by India in 1954.
The Nepalese government decided to measure the exact height of the mountain amid debates that there could have been a change due to various reasons, including the devastating 2015 earthquake.
The new height of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, is 8,848.86 meters, China and Nepal jointly announced today, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said in a short report.
Nepal recalculates the height of Mount Everest at 8,848.86 meters, the country’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali announced in Kathmandu.
The new height is 86 centimeters more than the previous measurement. According to the measurement made in 1954 by the Survey of India, the height of Mount Everest is 8,848 meters.
According to previous measurements from China, the height of Mount Everest is 8844.43 meters, four meters less than calculations from India.
Media reports said Chinese surveyors have conducted six rounds of scaling and scientific research on Mount Everest and published the height of the peak twice in 1975 and 2005, which was 8,848.13 meters and 8,844.43 meters. meters respectively.
In the Tibetan language, Mount Everest is known as Mount Qomolangma.
China and Nepal resolved their border dispute in 1961 with the border line passing over the top of Mount Everest.
Mount Everest is in the zone of collision and compression between the edges of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate, where the movement of the crust is very active.
“Accurately measuring the height of Mount Qomolangma is useful for studying the elevation changes of the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,” Gao Dengyi, an atmospheric physicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences previously told Chinese state media.
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