MT EVEREST’S NEW HEIGHT IS

8,848.86 METRES, SAY NEPAL

AND CHINA
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 Mt Everest is 86 cms taller now
The height of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, is 8848.86
metres, Nepal and China on Tuesday jointly announced ending a long-
standing debate about the height of the world’s tallest mountain.

The new height is 86 cm - a little less than 3 feet - more than the
previous measurement.
 Joint Announcement by Nepal and China
The height of the mountain peak that straddles the Nepal-China
border, was announced simultaneously by Nepal’s foreign minister
Pradeep Gyawali and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi in Kathmandu
and Beijing.
 What was the previous height?
The precise height of Mount Everest had been contested ever since a
group of British surveyors in India declared the height of Peak XV, as it
was initially called, to be 8,778 metres in 1847.

Between 1849 and 1855, the Survey of India made observations from
Dehradun, India base to Sonakhoda base in Bihar during which the
Himalayan peaks of Nepal were also observed.

At that time it was not known that this peak in the Himalayas was the
highest in the world.
 Sir George Everest
During computations, the mean
computed height of Peak XV came out
to be 8839.80 metres, and it was later
named after Sir George Everest, the ex
surveyor-general of India.

The widely accepted height of 8,848

metres was determined by the Survey
of India in 1954 from Bihar using the
trigonometric method.
 Previous Height was 8848 metres
The official Everest snow height of 8,848 meters (29,028 feet) was
measured by the Survey of India in 1954. (used a device called a
theodolite).

Then in 1999 a survey led by cartographer and explorer Bradford

Washburn, and sponsored by the National Geographic Society, was
the first to use GPS technology to measure the Everest summit.

That team’s work delivered an altitude of 29,035 ft.

 Why did the height change?
Scientists wanted to analyse how a devastating 7.8 magnitude
earthquake in 2015 affected the region.

Himalayan and Eurasian Plate are converging tectonic plates.

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