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Mount Everest is nearly a metre taller!
Mount Everest is nearly a metre taller!
While you were locked down and in the middle of a pandemic, the world's highest mountain Mount Everest added 0.86m to its height
New Delhi: While you were locked down and in the middle of a pandemic, the world's highest mountain Mount Everest added 0.86m to its height.
Nepal and China have jointly announced that the new height of Everest, which is on the border between the two countries, is 8,848.86m (29,032 ft).
China had earlier put the height at 8,844.43m, four metres lower than Nepal's estimate. Now it seems that surveyors from both countries have agreed on the new height. Mountaineers had suggested a 7.8 magnitude earthquake in 2015 which killed nearly 9,000 people in Nepal may have altered the height of Everest. There have been several discussions about what the reason for the change could be, including the devastating earthquake of 2015. Scientists say that the height of the tallest mountain could be increasing due to plate tectonics.
According a 1954 measurement by Survey of India, the height of Everest is 8,848 metres.
However, the new height measurement is still to be analysed by scientists and mapmakers around the world.
