New Height of Mount Everest 8,848.86 Meters:
The height of the world's highest peak, Mount Everest, has increased by 86 cm. Accordingly, the new height of Mount Everest has been maintained at 8,848.86 meters. Foreign Minister Pradip Kumar Gyawali and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi jointly announced the new height through virtual media on Tuesday.
Foreign Minister Gyawali said that measuring Everest with one's own manpower and resources has added a new height to Nepal's identity and pride. According to Minister Gyawali, both Nepal and China have signed a memorandum of understanding to jointly declare the issue.
The same meeting of the Council of Ministers had approved the proposal to declare the height of Everest. Minister for Land Management, Cooperatives and Poverty Alleviation Padmakumari Aryal had taken the proposal to the Council of Ministers.
Minister Aryal informed that for the first time in the history of 170 years, the height of Everest was measured using its own resources and manpower. She said that the height of Nepal and Nepalese in the world has increased with the height of Everest. He said that Nepal measured itself because others took different heights each time.
"Different countries have reached different heights each time. It was also important to address all these concerns and dilemmas. Which we have successfully completed. Today, we are proud to announce that the height of Mount Everest is 8848.86 meters, ”she said.
The Department of Surveying and Mapping surveyed Nagarkot, Chandrakot, Phulchoki, and other hills around Kathmandu after the 2015 earthquake and found that the height had increased by 0.91 m to 1.00 m.
Stating that the earthquake in 2015 had affected the height of Mount Everest, the Survey of India had announced to measure the new height. But the government had announced that it would measure the height of Mount Everest itself. For that, an international workshop of mapping scientists from different countries was organized. A team led by former Deputy Director-General of the Department Neeraj Manandhar presented the method of measuring the height of Everest. As per the suggestion of the workshop, it was decided to measure the height of Everest using GNSS technology. The Everest Heights Measurement Secretariat was formed under the coordination of the then Chief Survey Officer Sushil Dangol.
Fieldwork began in February 2018 and was completed in December. Chief Survey Officer Khemlal Gautam and Survey Officer Rabin Karki reached the summit of Everest on May 22, 2019, and conducted the GNSS survey in 1 hour and 16 minutes. After that, the work including data processing was completed last July.
The height of the world's tallest peak was first measured 170 years ago. The British Survey of India had fixed the altitude at 8,840.50 meters in 1849. However, the old technology was used at that time. It was revealed that the world's tallest furnace was Peak Fifteen (Peak 15) or the fifteenth furnace (now Mount Everest). Everest was measured by the British in 1904. Historian Baburam Acharya has named the world's highest peak Sagarmatha.
George Everest, the director-general engineer of the East India Company, measured the height of Mount Everest from 1949 to 1952. He presented the fact that the height of Everest is 8,840 meters. Mount Everest is named after George Everest. The Survey of India measured the height of Mount Everest in 1954. According to PL Gulati's survey, which took about two years, the height was 8,848 meters. Until now, it was considered official. It is also called Gulati Survey.
China measured 8,848.13 meters in 1975. However, China had been accepting 8,848 meters. When Italy measured it in 1992, it was 8,848.65 meters high. It was measured by Italy in 1987 and 2004. Italy also measured the second highest peak, Ketu. The United States reported an altitude of 8,850 meters in 2000. China's National Bureau of Surveying and Mapping measured 8,844.43 meters in 2005. It was measured by Denmark in 2010.
