Nepal and China on Tuesday jointly announced that the revised height of the world’s highest peak Mount Everest is 8,848.86 metres, about 86 centimetres more than the previous measurement done by India in 1954.
The Nepal Government decided to measure the exact height of the mountain amid debates that there might have been a change in it due to various reasons, including the devastating earthquake of 2015.
The new height of Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak, is 8,848.86 metres, China and Nepal jointly announced on Tuesday, China’s state-run Xinhua news agency said in a brief report. Nepal recalculates the height of Mount Everest at 8848.86 metres, the country’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali announced in Kathmandu.
According to China’s past measurement, the height of Mount Everest is 8844.43 metres which were four metres less than Nepal’s calculations.
In Tibetan language, Mount Everest is known as Mount Qomolangma. China and Nepal settled their border dispute in 1961 with the boundary line passing through the summit of Mount Everest.
Mount Everest is located in the collision and compression zone between the edges of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate, where crustal movement is very active.
