08 December 2020
China and Nepal jointly announced on 8 December 2020 that the data collected during the latest expeditions by Nepalese and Chinese teams to Mt. Everest (Mt. Qomolangma) lead to the result that the height of the mountain is 8,848.86 m. A Chinese survey team reached the summit on 27 May 2020 and remeasured the peak height. Nepali surveyors reached the top of the mountain in May 2019. For the determination of the height - among other data - 343 GNSS point data, including Beidou data, were processed.
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