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(ANSA) – ROME, DECEMBER 08 – Mount Everest is exactly 8,848.86 meters high: it has officially ‘grown’ 86 centimeters since the last universally accepted measurement, which dates back to 1954, the year of the first conquest of the summit for mountaineering and that placed the “roof of the world” at 8,848 meters above sea level.
The new figure was announced jointly by China and Nepal, the two countries that divide the mountain and whose border passes through the summit. An official announcement is ‘agreed’, after several years of disagreements between the two countries, with Beijing intending to stop measuring altitude at the rocky summit and Kathmandu, instead, insisting that the layer of ice covering the summit. cost of increased volatility. Therefore, in 2005, Beijing had ‘decreed’ the removal of almost 4 meters of ice, reducing the height of Everest to 8,844.43 meters.
The agreement between the two neighboring countries on the new measure was announced last year during a visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to Nepal.
Geologically very “young”, the Himalayas, born 50-60 million years ago, continue to grow due to the tectonic forces of the earth’s crust. However, geologists believe that the top of Everest also rises nearly half a meter every century or so. (HANDLE).
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