Nepal's Foreign Ministry announces newly-measured height of Mount Everest
By Lokmat English Desk | Published: December 8, 2020 02:34 PM2020-12-08T14:34:28+5:302020-12-08T14:47:22+5:30
The Nepal government on Tuesday revealed the revised height of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak. 8848.86 metres is ...
Nepal's Foreign Ministry announces newly-measured height of Mount Everest
The Nepal government on Tuesday revealed the revised height of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak. 8848.86 metres is the newly-measured height of Mount Everest, Nepal's Foreign Minister announced.
The current height of the mountain, 8,848 metres, was measured in 1954 by the Survey of India.
Nepal decided to re-measure the peak after speculations that the widely accepted figure might not be the actual height after the 2015 earthquake.
Nepal government officials coordinated with China, who sent its own team to measure the mountain's height.
Kathmandu and Beijing had agreed to jointly announce the revised height during Chinese President Xi Jinping's visit to Nepal in 2019.
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