New Height of Mt. Everest soon to be Announced
The new height of Mt. Everest is now soon to be announced by both Nepal and China. In 2019 when the Chinese President visited Nepal, both countries had signed a “Memorandum of Understanding” agreement to announce the new height of Mt. Everest.
For the first time in 1955, the Indian team surveys the height of Mt. Everett to be 8848m (29,029ft) above sea level which is still the official height of Everest till this date. Also in 1975, the Chinese survey had also confirmed the same height. Similarly, some unofficial survey was also done after that. In 1992, the Italian Survey lopped seven feet off the standard height, measuring it at 29,022 feet above sea level. But again in 1999, American scientists pushed the height a little higher, saying the mountain reached up to 29,035 feet above sea level. But on these all surveys, Nepal had almost no any role.
So, due to this confusion and not having a role in any of those surveys, Nepal Government announces to measure the new height of Everest in collaboration with China. It is also believed that after the massive earthquake in 2015, Mt. Everest may have been shrunk which made more compulsion to measure the height again.
By taking the Bay of Bengal as its Sea level, the Nepalese side had already measured the height of Everest. But due to covid and some other reasons, the Chinese survey was delayed. Now with recent news, we knew that the measurement from the Chinese side had also been completed by taking the Yellow sea as its sea level. So within a few days, both the Nepalese & Chinese Government will announce the new height of Mt. Everest.
