Nepal to clarify Everest height
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July 21, 2011, Thursday
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NEPAL'S government has ordered a new measurement of Mount Everest to determine exactly how high the world's highest mountain is, an official said yesterday.
Nepal has continued to recognize the decades-old measurement of 8,448 meters. However, there have been other claims recently by China and western climbers. Land Reforms Ministry spokesman Gopal Giri said that the government decided last week during its annual budget speech to take the new measurement. The plans are being put in place this week and the work will entail placing a device on the peak that will measure the height using satellite technology, he said.
Stations will be set up in three different locations using the global positioning system. The task would take two years.
An American expedition in 1999 said it used GPS satellites to determine the peak to be 8,850 meters, a height which is widely used now.
The Chinese recently claimed the height of Everest at 8,844 meters.
Nepal has continued to recognize the decades-old measurement of 8,448 meters. However, there have been other claims recently by China and western climbers. Land Reforms Ministry spokesman Gopal Giri said that the government decided last week during its annual budget speech to take the new measurement. The plans are being put in place this week and the work will entail placing a device on the peak that will measure the height using satellite technology, he said.
Stations will be set up in three different locations using the global positioning system. The task would take two years.
An American expedition in 1999 said it used GPS satellites to determine the peak to be 8,850 meters, a height which is widely used now.
The Chinese recently claimed the height of Everest at 8,844 meters.
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