Mount everest is called the world's highest mountain because it has the highest elevation above sea level. we could also say that it has the highest image copyright istockphoto / ache1978.
View Mount Everest Height Pics. Then how to measure the height of mount everest? The measurement of the peak position can use the global positioning system (gps), its error can be within a centimeter.
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The world's highest mountain mount everest is 0.86m higher than had been previously officially calculated, nepal and china have jointly announced. The new height is 8,848.86m (29,032 ft). The mahalangur range is home to four of the earth's six highest peaks.
Located between the solukhumbu district of nepal and.
The mt.everest height is 29,029 ft above sea level, based on the survey accepted by nepal and china. Everest never attempted to measure any of the heights of the himalayan range. The measurement of the peak position can use the global positioning system (gps), its error can be within a centimeter. In 1953, about a century after mount everest's height was first clearly ascertained, edmund hillary and tenzing norgay became the first to reach its summit.
