Kathmandu, December 8: The new height of Mount Everest is 8848.86 metres, announced Pradeep Kumar Gyawali, Nepal Foreign Minister on Tuesday.
According to the details, Nepal and China jointly announced that the revised height of the world’s highest peak Mount Everest was 8,848.86 metres, about 86 centimetres more than the previous measurement done by India in 1954.
After working for a year on processing data regarding the measurement of the world’s highest peak, Nepal announced the newly-measured height of Mount Everest.
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While deploying Nepali officials and experts to re-measure the mountain’s height, the Government of Nepal also coordinated with China in its domestic efforts. During Chinese President Xi Jinping’s Nepal visit in 2019, both nations signed an agreement to jointly announce the height of the world’s tallest peak.
According to China’s past measurement, the height of Mount Everest is 8844.43 metres which were four metres less than Nepal’s calculations.
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Earlier, the media reports said Chinese surveyors have conducted six rounds of scaled measurement and scientific research on Mount Everest and released the height of the peak twice in 1975 and 2005, which was 8,848.13 metres and 8,844.43 metres respectively. China and Nepal settled their border dispute in 1961 with the boundary line passing through the summit of Mount Everest.