Mount Everest’s new height -key facts
Mount Everest’s new height -key facts
Nepal and china have made an announcement on December
8, 2020 that the new height of Mount Everest has been recorded as 8848.86
meters.
Highlights
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The announcement was made by Nepal Foreign minister
Pradeep kumar Gyawali that Nepal has reached at Mount Everest’s height.
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Both, Nepal and China, worked nointly for almost a
year so as to process the data regarding the measurement of the highest peak.
Height
of the mountain
As per the survey conducted by India in 1954, the old
height of Mt Everest was recorded as 8848 meters. While the new height of Nepal
is 0.86 meters more than the previous measurement.
Background
Nepal Started the initiative the height of mount
Everest because of the several speculation that the height of the mountain
(8848 meters) might have changed in the backdrop of devastating 2015 earthquake
that resulted into massive destruction in Nepal. After that, Nepal and china in
2019 agreed to jointly announced he height of the highest mountain of the
world.
About
the initiative
Nepal had developed Nepali officials and experts to
re-measure the height of the mountain. While measuring the height of the
mountain , Nepal coordinated with china in it’s domestic efforts.
Mount
Everest
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the earth above
sea level. It is located in the
Mahalangur Himal range of Himalayas.
The china Nepal border runs along its summit point. Earlier,
Everest was its official English name that was given by Royal Geographical Society
on the recommendation of Andrew Waugh. There are two main climbing routs. One
of the routes is the summit from the southeast in Nepal while the other is from
the north in Tibet.
The first recorded efforts
to reach Everest's summit were made by British mountaineers. As Nepal did not allow foreigners to enter the country at
the time, the British made several attempts on the north ridge route from the
Tibetan side. After the first reconnaissance
expedition by the British in 1921 reached 7,000 m (22,970 ft) on the North Col,
the 1922
expedition pushed the north ridge route up to
8,320 m (27,300 ft), marking the first time a human had climbed above
8,000 m (26,247 ft). Seven porters were killed in an avalanche on the
descent from the North Col. The 1924
expedition resulted in one of the greatest mysteries on
Everest to this day: George Mallory and Andrew
Irvine made a final summit attempt on 8 June but
never returned, sparking debate as to whether or not they were the first to
reach the top. They had been spotted high on the mountain that day but
disappeared in the clouds, never to be seen again, until Mallory's body was
found in 1999 at 8,155 m (26,755 ft) on the north face. Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary made the first
official ascent of Everest in 1953, using the southeast ridge route. Norgay had reached
8,595 m (28,199 ft) the previous year as a member of the 1952
Swiss expedition. The Chinese mountaineering team of Wang Fuzhou, Gonpo, and Qu Yinhua made the first reported ascent
of the peak from the north ridge on 25 May 1960
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