7 wonderful facts about Mount Everest

Mount Everest’s Height

Mount Everest’s height is continuously changing and it is one of the 10 amazing facts about Mount Everest. It is part of the Himalayan range. Its measured height is 8844.43 meters and 29,016 feet above sea level. This mountain is still rising about 40cm or 6 inches in every century.

About its height, various surveys have been carried out in different years.

According to the Indian survey 1952 and 1954, its height was 8848 meters.

In 1987 according to the Italian survey, its height was 8872 meters. Another Italian survey was evaluated in 1992. This time height was 8846 meters.

In 1999 an American did this survey according to him its height was 8850 meters.

According to the latest survey in 2005 by china now its height is 8844.43 meters.

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