The height of Mount Everest has been recalculated, and it is is 0.86m higher than had been previously officially calculated, Nepal and China have jointly announced.
Until now, China and Nepal had differed over whether to add the snow cap on top. The new height is 8,848.86m.
China’s previous official measurement of 8,844.43m had put the mountain nearly four metres lower than Nepal’s.
Officials at Nepal’s foreign ministry and department of survey said surveyors from both countries had co-ordinated to agree on the new height.
The agreement to jointly announce the new measurement of the Earth’s highest point was made during Chinese President Xi Jinping’s visit to the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu last year.
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