Mount Everest's new height of 8848.86 meters.
                     MOUNT EVEREST'S NEW 
HEIGHT OF 8848.86 
METERS
INTRODUCTION
■ Nepal and China jointly declared the updated 
height of the world's highest mountain as 
8,848.86 meters in the sense of a long-
running controversy over the height of Mount 
Everest, 86 cm greater than what has been 
known since 1954. 
Source: 
www.rediff.com
OFFICIAL DECLARATION
■ Nepalese and Chinese officials based in 
Kathmandu and Beijing, respectively, made the 
announcement through a joint video 
conference. 
■ In the middle of debates that there may have 
been a change in its height due to numerous 
factors, including the disastrous earthquake of 
2015, the Nepal government agreed to 
calculate the exact height of the peak.
Source: 
www.novinite.com
MOUNT EVEREST'S HEIGHT 
■ According to the common declaration by both 
countries means that the two have lost their 
long-standing difference of opinion on the height 
of the mountain, claimed by China at 29,017 
feet (8,844 m) and Nepal at 29,028 ft (8,848 m). 
Source: www.thehillstimes.in
CHANGE IN HEIGHT
■ The new elevation in foot is about 29,031 ft, or about 3 ft higher than the previous claim 
from Nepal.
■ The height of Mount Everest is 8,848 metres, according to the 1954 Survey of India 
calculation, which is the most widely agreed height, according to the Wire article.
Source: 
www.firstpost.com
HEIGHT CONTROVERSY 
BETWEEN CHINA AND NEPAL
■ The exact height of Mount Everest has been 
debated because, according to Business Tradition, 
a party of British surveyors in India announced the 
height of Peak XV to be 8,778 metres in 1847. 
■ The Chinese authorities had previously suggested 
that Mount Everest should be measured at its rock 
height, although the Nepalese authorities argued 
that it should have snow at the top of the summit. 
Source: www.utkaltoday.com
CHINESE AUTHORITIES
■ China's estimation of 8,844.43 metres in 2005 
placed the mountain some 3.57 metres below 
that of Nepal (which followed the 
measurement given by Survey of India). 
■ This is the first time Nepal has performed its 
own summit assessment.
Source: 
www.firstpost.com
WHEN WAS MOUNT EVEREST 
LAST MEASURED?
■ The 2015 earthquake prompted a discussion 
among scientists about whether the height of 
the mountain was influenced by it. 
■ Instead of attempting to follow the Survey of 
India results of 1954, the government 
eventually announced that it would assess the 
mountain on its own. 
Source: 
www.plenglish.com
USA ESTIMATION
■ A US team set the elevation at 29,035 feet in 1999 (nearly 8,850 m). The National 
Geographic Society, US, funded this survey. This scale is used by the Society, although 
8,848 metres have been recognised so far by the rest of the world, except China.
Source: 
newsable.asianetnews.com
SO WHAT THIS THE NEW HEIGHT 
MEAN?
■ The declaration came after Kathmandu and Beijing sent a surveyors' expedition to 
the summit to measure the exact height of Everest above sea level. 
■ On a video call with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, Gyawali confirmed the results 
of their surveys. Everest is an everlasting sign of peace between Nepal and China. 
Source: www.cnet.com
GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE 
SYSTEM
■ Meanwhile, according to The Washington Post, 
Nepal's chief survey officer, Susheel Dangol, 
head of the measurement programme, said 
they were positive that this is Everest's most 
accurate height. 
■ Experts told that it is possible that the 
number will now become Everest's normal 
height. Damodar Dhakal, a Nepal Department 
of Survey spokesperson, said their surveyors 
used the Global Navigation Satellite System 
to get the exact height of the peak.
Source: 
www.firstpost.com