Mount Everest is almost a metre taller
The world’s highest mountain just got
taller.
Mount Everest is officially 0.86 metres
higher than previously thought, Nepal and China announced today.
The two nations said the mountain’s new height
is 8,848.86 metres, after previously disagreeing on its measurements.
China’s official height was 8,844.43m,
which was almost four metres lower than Nepal’s.
Efforts to agree on a height saw officials
from both nations work together for the latest measurements.
Mount Everest borders China and Nepal and
climbed by mountaineers from both sides.
The nations disagreed on the height as
China insisted it be measured from its rock height while Nepal included its
snowcap.
Despite the increased height, some
geologists think the mountain may have actually lost some of its snow cap due
to 7.8 magnitude earthquake which killed 9,000 people in Nepal in 2015.
