Though India offered to jointly measure the height of Mt Everest with the Nepalese side, officials here rejected the proposal, saying the country would conduct the exercise on its own this time. So there is no question of rejecting or accepting the Indian proposal,” Bhatta told Hindustan Times. In 2011, Nepal had planned to measure the height of Mt Everest and allocated Rs 8 million for the effort. After the great earthquake of 2015 and speculation that the height of Mt Everest could have been changed by the temblors and aftershocks, the government decided to measure the world’s tallest mountain. To make the findings credible and widely accepted, tools and methods such as GPS, gravity survey measurement, vertical height measurement and mathematical survey will be used along with direct measurement and triangulation.

Source: Hindustan Times December 27, 2017 11:25 UTC