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| Mount Everest |
July 20, 2011
NEPAL NEWS – To close the bracket of argument with China over the exact height of the world’s tallest mountain, the government of Nepal has ordered a new survey to re-measure the height of Mount Everest.
Presently the measured height of Everest is designated as 8,848m (29,029ft). But China and Nepal have had a long argument over the exact height this mountain.
The Chinese have stated to measure the mountain from its rock height, whereas Nepal said it should be measured by its snow height – which is four meters higher.
Last year both the countries came to a common conclusion that the height of the mountain should be designated as 8,848m. However, later on while border talks between two countries Chinese officials stuck their minds on rock height.
Nepal government spokesman Gopal Giri said they wanted to clear the confusion and ended the row of China. He said Nepal was equipped with modern technology and resources, so they could measure it themselves.
It is noted that the first time Nepal government has taken initiative to measure the height of the Everest.
Three stations with global positioning system will be set-up at three different locations and the estimate time to measure the peak would take two years.
After the first ascend of the peak by Sherpa Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary in 1953, many mountaineers keep climbing this peak, but the exact height of the peak has been in disagreement ever since the first measurement was taken in 1856.
India conducted a survey in 1953 and the height of 8,848 was broadly accepted by all. However, later on due to climatic changes and a few other disputes, many analysts had expressed disagreement over the height.
Many geologists say the mountain would be much higher than the current accepted height because India is gradually pushed beneath China and Nepal due to shifting continental plates.
The US National Geographic Society accepted the figure of 8,850m measured by an American team used GPS technology to measure the height of Mount Everest. Nepal has not officially accepted the figure.
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