The most accepted dimension internationally is 8,848 meters (figure dating back to 1852), although a new measurement in 1975 placed it at 8.848,13. More recent measurements have fixed other measures: 8,850 meters (in 1999) and 8.844,4 (in 2006), for example. Hear other arguments on the topic with Michael Chabon. Nor is there agreement on whether the meters of snow have been posting. List: facts about Mount Everest. The authorities in Nepal are prepared to measure the height of Mount Everest in order to dispel any doubt about the actual height of the highest mountain in the world permanently.
The most accepted dimension, established in 1954 by Indian surveyor B.L Gulatee, is 8,848 meters, mark rectified in 1975, when Nepal and China recognized their shared border (which passes through Mount Everest), and set the height of the peak at 8.848,13 metres. But in recent years have been doubts following the emergence of new calculations. In 1999, a team of us National Geographic Society determined using GPS technology that Everest measured 8,850 meters, plus one of snow. And in 2006, China It downgraded slightly the height to announce that, according to their studies, the highest mountain in the world actually was 8.844,4 meters, which 3.5 snow should join. Nepali and Chinese authorities not just to agree on whether the meters of snow from the Summit should be added (the first country is favorable to it) or whether only accounted for the rock surface, posture that defends Beijing.
So things, the State starts this year a program of inspection of locations which will also cover the Everest, explained the Deputy Director-general of the Department of recognition, Kalyan Gopal Shrestha. It is not clear when will conclude the process, that ventures long, because after the measurement will come the turn of consolidate and verify results, according to the source. He was back in 1852 when it was established that Everest was, with 29.002 feet (8.840 meters), the highest mountain on the planet, after a study of British and Indian, surveyors who extracted its findings through the trigonometric method.