Nepal, China to announce revised height of Mt. Everest soon

Kathmandu, November 26

Nepal and China will collectively announce the revised peak of Mt Everest, the world’s highest peak, most likely throughout the upcoming go to of the Chinese defence minister to the Himalayan nation, in keeping with media experiences on Thursday.

The Nepal authorities aimed to measure the precise peak of the mountain amid debates that there may need been a change in its peak as a result of varied causes, together with the devastating earthquake of 2015.

According to the measurement accomplished in 1954 by Survey of India, the peak of Mt. Everest is 8,848 metres, The Rising Nepal newspaper reported.

In 1975, Chinese surveyors measured Mt. Everest as 8,848.13 metres above sea degree, in keeping with China’s official Xinhua information company.

A survey in 2005 discovered the summit’s rock peak at 8,844.43 metres and its ice-snow layer at 3.5 metres deep. There was one metre of unknown materials, most likely a mix of ice and gravel, between the rock head and the snow cap, it stated in a report in May this yr.

A gathering of Nepal’s Council of Ministers held on Wednesday authorised the Ministry of Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation to announce the brand new peak of Mt Everest, The Kathmandu Post reported.

“As the measurement work is in the final stage, the government is preparing to officially declare the new height of Mt. Everest,” Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padma Kumari Aryal stated after the Cabinet assembly.

“It is the first time that the government has measured the height of the tallest peak in the world by using its own resources and equipment,” she stated.

Quoting sources, MyRepublica newspaper stated that Nepal and China are planning to announce the brand new peak of Mt. Everest throughout the go to of Chinese Defence Minister Gen. Wei Fenghe on Sunday.

However, The Kathmandu Post reported that it was not clear whether or not the brand new peak of Mt. Everest could be introduced throughout Wei’s day-long go to to Kathmandu on November 29.

Earlier, officers from Nepal and China had reached a consensus to announce the official peak of Mt. Everest which straddles the 2 nations.

While Nepal began measuring the peak of the mountain in 2017, China did so final yr after the go to of Chinese President Xi Jinping to Nepal. The two nations have already achieved the duty of measurement of the peak of Mt. Everest, the experiences stated. — PTI