Expedition to measure Everest鈥檚 height
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SCIENTISTS will take the tape measure to Mount Everest to determine whether a massive earthquake in Nepal really did knock an inch off the world’s tallest peak.
India’s top surveyor said yesterday a team of scientists would be sent to neighboring Nepal to measure Everest in the hope of putting to rest a debate about the true height of the towering mountain.
A deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in 2015, killing thousands and altering the landscape across the Himalayan nation.
Satellite data at the time suggested the impact of the quake reduced Everest’s peak — which officially stands at 8,848 meters above sea level — by anywhere between a few millimeters and an inch.
But lingering doubt among the scientific community has prompted a fresh expedition to size up the peak, said India’s surveyor general Swarna Subba Rao.
“We will remeasure it,” Rao was quoted as saying by the Press Trust of India news agency, adding the team would set off in two months.
“Two years have passed since the major Nepal earthquake and there’s doubt in the scientific community that it did in fact shrink.”
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