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The big question is, should mountains be measured with or without snow?
Now China and Nepal have finally managed to agree that the tallest mountain in the world has grown one meter and has become 8849 meters high, or to be exact 8848.86 meters above sea level.
It is a layer of snow several meters thick at the top of the mountain, which to this day has measured about 8848 meters above sea level.
It is this height that Nepal has leaned on all these years, while China, for its part, has operated with an official height four meters lower, that is, the height of the mountain itself.
In the last two years, a series of surveys have been carried out in order to make new precise measurements, a project carried out in collaboration between the two countries.
The reason was that many feared that the mountain had gotten smaller after a major earthquake in the area in 2015.
But now it is clear, the tallest mountains in the world are higher than what Nepal and China have claimed in all the years.
The authorities of the two countries refer to the project as “an eternal symbol of friendship between Nepal and China.”
