China and Nepal have jointly announced a new height for Mount Everest, ending a discrepancy between them.
The official height is now 8,848.86 metres (29,032ft), China’s official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday, slightly more than Nepal’s previous measurement and about 4m higher than China’s.
The new height was agreed on after the two countries sent surveyors from their respective sides of the mountain in 2019 and 2020.
There had been debate over the height of the peak and concern that it might have shrunk after a powerful earthquake in 2015.
Nepal previously measured Everest’s height as 8,848m, while China put it at 8,844.43m, because it did not include the snow cap.
The Chinese leader, Xi Jinping, said the countries were committed to jointly protecting the environment around Everest and cooperating in scientific research, Xinhua said.
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