Nepal decided to conduct the 1st survey suggesting that tectonic plate movements including 2015 earthquake may have affected the height.
The highest point on Earth got a bit higher on Tuesday as China and Nepal finally agreed on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after decades of debate.
The agreed height unveiled at a joint news conference in Kathmandu of 8,848.86 metres was 86 centimetres higher than the measurement previously recognized by Nepal, and more than 4 metres above China's official figure.
The discrepancy was due to the China measuring the rock base on the summit and not -- as with the new reading -- the covering of snow and ice on the peak.
Nepal decided to conduct the survey -- its first -- after suggestions that tectonic plate movements including a major earthquake in 2015 may have affected the height.-AFP
