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Mount Everest Grows By Nearly A Meter To Record Height

The world’s highest peak Mount Everest has grown 0.86m to a newly-measured 29,032 ft. (8,848.86m), China and Nepal jointly announced on Tuesday.

Until now, both countries discussed whether to include the snow cap on the top in the measurement. Chinese authorities previously said Mount Everest should be measured to its rock height, while Nepalese authorities argued that the snow on top of the summit should be included.

Officials representing Nepal’s foreign ministry and a team of surveyors reportedly coordinated to agree on the new height.


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Media reports quoted Nepal’s Foreign Ministry, which stated,

8848.86 meters is the newly-measured height of Mount Everest

Previous calibration records of Mount Everest measured the mountain at 8,848 meters, according to the measurement done in 1954. The People’s Daily newspaper in China tweeted the new finding and shared the news that President Xi Jinping and Nepali President Bidya Devi Bhandari exchanged congratulatory messages on Tuesday.

As per reports, the 8,848m height Nepal was previously using for Everest was determined by an Indian survey in 1954, but for the first time, the country has conducted its own measurement of the summit. Four Nepalese surveyors trained for two years for the mission.

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