Kathmandu, July 19 (ANI): Nepal has begun measuring the world's highest mountain, Mt. Sagarmatha or Everest (also called Qomolangma).
This is the first time that Nepal is carrying out the measurement of the world's highest peak on its own, the Xinhua news agency reports.
The measurement work will begin taking the Kolkata port of India as the sea level for the measurement and is expected to be completed within two years, according to the Ministry of Land Reform and Management.
The measurement work has been initiated after Nepal became technologically capable of measuring the mountain.
According to Tuesday's National News Agency RSS report, the height of Mt. Qomolangma has been mentioned as 8,848.13 meters in the Nepal-China border treaty.
During the border related dialogue held with Nepal, China has been stating that a unilateral inspection carried out by the government of China has found that the mountain's rock height was 8,844.42 meters and 8,847.933 meters when measured with snow deposit.
In 1990, American geologist Wash Borne had claimed that the mountain measured 8,850 meters.
Nepal's Tenzing Norge Sherpa and Edmund Hillary of New Zealand were the first to reach atop Mt. Everest on May 29, 1953. (ANI)
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