The revised height of Mt Everest puts an end to the decades-long
dispute between Nepal and China. All you need to know about the controversy
"This is a
historic day. The new height of Mt Everest is 8,848.86 metres," Nepal and
China announced on Tuesday after they remeasured Mt Everest at 8,848.86 metres,
over six decades after India conducted the previous measurement in 1954.
The revised height
of Mount
Everest puts an end to the decades-long dispute between the two neighbours
on the height of the world's tallest mountain that straddles their shared border.
Describing Mount Everest "an important symbol of the China-Nepal
traditional friendship," Xi Jinping said it is agreed by both countries as
the boundary peak and the "Peak of China-Nepal Friendship," the
Xinhua report said.
Mount Everest
height controversy explained
The exact height
of Mount Everest had been contested ever since a group of British surveyors in
India declared the height of Peak XV to be 8,778 metres in 1847.
The revised height
of Mt Everest puts an end to the decades-long dispute between the two
neighbours on the height of the world's
tallest mountain that straddles their shared border.
The peak of Mt
Everest or as the Chinese call it 'Mt Qomolangma' played a significant role in
the settlement of the boundary between Nepal and China, after Beijing gave up
its claims over the whole mountain as part of its territory after it took
control of Tibet in 1950.
The dispute was
finally settled in 1961 after the intervention of the ruling Communist Party of
China founder Mao Zedong, who suggested that the boundary line should pass
through the summit of the Mt Everest, which was agreed by Nepal.
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