Everest's height may have to be revised
A new survey of Mt. Everest indicates that the Nepal government may need to revise the official height of the world's highest mountain, the local media reported on Thursday. Everest to be approximately 8,848.9 m in the World Height System, which is 90 cm more than the current official value of Nepal. According to the report, earlier, a survey team of China in 2005 had put the snow height at 8,847.93 m whereas a National Geographic Society survey of 1999 had pegged its height at 8,850 m. Scientists used Global Positioning System satellite equipment carried to the summit on May 5 of that year to calculate the height. The Himalayas are the most rugged gravity field on the planet, and one of the goals of the 2010 airborne survey was to find a revised height of Mt.
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