How High Is Mount Everest?

Mount Everest, also called ‘Sagarmatha’ is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. Before 1852 A.D., How high is Mount Everest was not known there were only an assumptions of it’s height through direct sight.

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It was the first time “how high is the mount Everest?” was evaluated by an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal.Using trigonometric calculations made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India and the measurement he found to be exactly 29,000 feet. But how high Mount Everest is was more recently found to be 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high, although there is some variation in the measurements. On May 22, 2005, the People's Republic of China's Everest Expedition Team ascended to the top of the mountain to measure how high is Mount Everest actually is. After several months' complicated measurement and calculation, on October 9, 2005, the PRC's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the height of Everest as 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft).But this new height is based on the actual highest point of rock and not on the snow and ice that sits on top of that rock on the summit. They claimed it was the most accurate measurement to date on How High is Mount Everest. 

Mount Everest of Nepal is a summit which attains the greatest distance above sea level comparing to other great mountains like Mauna Kea of Hawaii, Denali of Alaska, Chimborazo of Ecuador and Mount K2 of Pakistan measuring about 8848m high from sea level.

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