Article 580EW Mount Everest: Nepal and China prepare to reveal new height after Covid delay

Mount Everest: Nepal and China prepare to reveal new height after Covid delay

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Helen Davidson
from Environment | The Guardian on (#580EW)

Competing teams have both completed trips to the summit but plans have been disrupted by the pandemic

Some time in the near future - after a wait of a decade - the world will learn the new height of Mount Everest.

China and Nepal have teamed up to measure the world's highest mountain which straddles their border and, under a 2019 memorandum of understanding, they must announce their findings together. The announcement was reportedly delayed because of the pandemic.

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