Kathmandu:
The Nepalese government spent $1.10 million to conduct the arduous surveys prior to figuring out the height of Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak, an official mentioned on Wednesday.
Around 80 folks had been involved in the two years of tough work for re-measuring the height of Sagarmatha, the Nepalese name for Mount Everest, Deputy Director General of the Department of Survey Susheel Dangol mentioned.
A group led by Mr Dangol performed the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) survey of Everest Peak on May 22, 2019.
The Nepalese government spent Rs 130 million ($1.10 million) to conduct news surveys prior to figuring out the height of Mount Everest, an official mentioned.
Although the field work started as early as February 2018, the survey was carried out in May 2019.
Under this, the GNSS survey was completed by the technical group at a total of 298 points, Mr Dangol mentioned, adding that prior to this, a precise levelling observation of 248 km stretch was completed.
Similarly, Gravity Survey and Triangulation and Trigonometrical levelling have also been completed. The Everest was observed from 12 distinct stations for the objective of measurement of the precise height.
This was for the initially time that Nepal carried out the survey work for the measurement of the world’s highest peak on its personal.
After finishing 248 km of precise levelling survey, the height of datum station at Maadar of Siraha district was connected from Indian datum as portion of the technical work.
“The team of surveyors conducted a successful summit expedition of Mount Everest on May 22, 2019,” he mentioned, adding that the group was led by Chief Survey Officer Khimlal Gautam.
The group was supported by Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa (international mountain guide). The group performed 1 hour 16 minutes GNSS observation and also performed the Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) survey.
After finishing the survey by the Nepalese group, the joint processing of the information was carried out in collaboration with the Chinese survey group, which concluded its separate survey from the northern side of Mount Everest.
The Nepalese group performed the survey from the southern side of Everest. With the completion of the joint processing work, the actual height of Mount Everest, that is 8848.86 metres, was jointly announced by Nepal and China on Tuesday.
Nepalese Foreign Minister Pradeep Kumar Gyawali and Chinese Minister for Foreign Affairs announced the new height via video conferencing from Kathmandu and Beijing.
The world’s highest peak is now taller by 86 centimetres, Nepal and China jointly announced on Tuesday immediately after they remeasured Mt. Everest at 8,848.86 metres, more than six decades immediately after India performed the prior measurement in 1954.
The revised height of Mount Everest puts an finish to the decades-lengthy dispute among the two neighbours on the height of the world’s tallest mountain that straddles their shared border.
The precise height of Mount Everest had been contested ever due to the fact a group of British surveyors in India declared the height of Peak XV, as it was initially referred to as, to be 8,778 metres in 1847.
Mount Everest stands on the border among China and Nepal and mountaineers climb it from each the sides. Mount Everest is recognized as Sagarmatha in Nepal when in China it is referred to as Mount Qomolangma, the Tibetan name for the world’s highest peak.