Nepal and china have announced the revised height of mount everest as 8,848.86 metres.
16+ Mount Everest Height Comparison Background. There's little risk of everest losing its title as the world's highest mountain. Mount everest, mountain on the crest of the great himalayas of southern asia that lies on the border between nepal and the tibet autonomous region of china.
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By comparison, mount everest has a current fatality rate of less than 1%. More recent surveys put everest's height at 29,029 feet but a disputed satellite measurement from 1999 says that number might actually be 29,035. Mount everest is called the world's highest mountain because it has the highest elevation above sea level. 1 nepal and china agree on mount everest's height, article on the bbc website, accessed january 2019.
The new height is 86 cm more than the previous measurement.
Prakash mathema/afp via getty images hide caption. Beijing — the world's highest mountain is now officially a little higher, and that might not be the end of the story. Reaching an elevation of 29,032 feet (8,849 meters), mount everest is the highest mountain in the world. Mount everest formed about 60 million years ago, as india crashed into eurasia.
