EXPLAINER: Why did Mount Everest’s height change?
World | December 09, 2020 17:26 ISTThe world’s highest mountain is now officially a little higher, and that might not be the end of the story.
The world’s highest mountain is now officially a little higher, and that might not be the end of the story.
8848.86 metres is the newly-measured height of Mount Everest, Nepal's Foreign Minister announced on Tuesday. Nepal undertook the initiation to measure the height of the world's tallest peak after speculations that widely accepted that the height of 8,848 metres might not be the actual length after the 2015 earthquake which shook the nation.
A Cabinet meeting on Wednesday evening gave nod to Nepal's Ministry of Land Management to announce the height of Everest and according to some media reports, as the peak has appeared taller than it was but no official confirmation yet.
A group of Chinese mountaineers has begun an expedition on Mount Everest as China limped back to normalcy after the coronavirus outbreak.
Many Chinese climbers have started cancelling their expedition bookings after the COVID-19 outbreak.
The team members will be battling extreme cold, high winds and piled-up snow and ice as they try to become the first to reach the top of Everest in the winter in 27 years.
If the research presented in December last year is to be believed, the glaciers along Mount Everest's flanks had shrunk significantly from the top down and this happened in between 1962 to 2018.
A new set of rules has now been introduced for Mount Everest climbers. Until now, climbers below the age of 16, persons with serious diseases and criminal history were the only ones barred from climbing mountains.
Nirmal Purja, 36, known as Nims, broke the previous record of a South Korean climber, Kim Chang-ho, who achieved the feat in 2003 to scale all the peaks higher than 8,000 metres in seven years, 10 months and six days
The decision to jointly re-measure the height of Mt. Everest was taken after Chinese President Xi Jinping held talks with his Nepalese counterpart Bidya Devi Bhandari and Prime Minister K P Sharma Oli in Kathmandu during the weekend.
The main objective of the programme was to highlight the importance of yoga in daily life and to bring peace and harmony across the nations and among people, a press statement issued by the Embassy said.
The successful installation aims to break new ground in monitoring and understanding of climate change as the stations will help continuously monitor the upper reaches of the atmosphere, which is critical to tracking and predicting weather patterns around the globe.
A total of 11,000 kg garbage and four dead bodies were removed from the Mount Everest during a two-month long cleanliness drive conducted by the Nepal government on the world's highest mountain.
Traffic jam at Mount Everest creates lethal conditions for climbers
The deaths rising at Mount Everest is not solely because of overcrowding said, Nepal government. Other factors such as adverse weather conditions could be one of the prime reasons that are contributing to the same.
More than 10,000 kilograms of solid waste was collected from Mt. Everest during a first-ever cleaning campaign on the world's highest mountain, Nepalese officials said on Monday.
Two more Indian climbers have died on Mount Everest, taking the death toll to 8 of the Indian mountaineers who perished in their expedition to the world's highest peak during this season.
Nepal opened the climbing route to the world's highest peak on May 14, when a team of eight Sherpas successfully scaled the Mount Everest.
Cash had collapsed near a portion of the trail called the "Hillary Step", an elevation of approximately 8,770 metres.
Sonam Paljor and Hero Wangyal from Leh district scaled the World's highest peak during an army expedition in the past.
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