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Why Mount Everest’s height keeps changing

In this video, we learn why the world’s tallest mountain just got a little taller.

In December of 2020, China and Nepal made a joint announcement about a new measurement for Mount Everest: 8,849 metres. This is just the latest of several different surveys of Everest since the first measurement was taken in 1855.

The reasons why the mountain’s height has fluctuated have to do with surveying methodology, challenges in determining sea level and the people who have historically been able to measure Everest.

(Meanwhile, to learn more about the method of measurement mentioned at the end of the video, which would actually position other mountains as taller than Everest, click here.)

View the original video here.

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