Mount Everest officially increases in height

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Mount Everest has increased in height with both China and Nepal agreeing on new, taller height. Mount Everest sits on the border between the two countries.

Both China and Nepal sent an expedition of surveyors to the summit and settled on the official height of 8,848.86 metres (29,032ft). This is a bit more than their previous calculations.

They used GPS and also trigonometry to make the final calculations.

The new measurement will have little impact as K2, the world’s second highest mountain, is 237 metres lower.

Mount Everest is named after the colonial-era British surveyor George Everest, who never actually saw it.

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Shem Banbury - Kiwi Kids News Editor

Shem Banbury is the Editor of Kiwi Kids News and is the Deputy Principal at Mount Maunganui Intermediate. In his spare time, he likes to train and compete in triathlons, play cricket and spend time with his family.

5 Responses

jimmy bugger says:

February 17, 2021 at 10:51 am

wow
immy says:

February 18, 2021 at 2:23 pm

wow?
Hi i am not a potato says:

February 19, 2021 at 9:50 am

so cool
toast says:

February 19, 2021 at 2:12 pm

mount everest got higher?? luckily people climbed it before it grew
huuhgvvbj says:

February 23, 2021 at 11:38 am

wow that is so cool