Mt. Everest - Revision history

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‎See also

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‎Glaciers

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‎Glaciers

Pdewan at 23:08, 9 September 2021

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Pdewan: /* 1840-2016: a history */

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‎1840-2016: a history

Jyoti: /* How mountains are measured */

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‎How mountains are measured

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‎Height

Jyoti: /* 8,848.86m (29,031.7ft). / 2020 */

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‎8,848.86m (29,031.7ft). / 2020

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‎1840-2016: a history

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‎2019: 11,000 kilos of trash removed

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  Carbon dating showed the toplayer of icewas around2,000 years old, suggesting that the glacier was thinning over 80 times faster than the time it took to form, the study said. At that rate, South Col was “probably going to disappear within very few decades”, lead scientist Paul Mayewski told National Geographic. “It’s quite a remarkable transition,” he added.
  The South Col glacier is around 7,900 metres above sea level and a kilometre below the peak of Mt Everest. Other researchers have shown that Himalayan glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. As the glaciers shrink, hundreds of lakes have formed in the foothills of Himalayan mountains that could burst and cause floods.  AFP
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	Earlier in May , a group of international researchers had warned that the estimated 5,500 glaciers in the Hindu KushHimalayan region -site of many of the world's tallest peaks, including Mount Everest -could reduce their volume by 70-99% by 2100, with dire consequences for farming and hydropower generation downstream.		Earlier in May , a group of international researchers had warned that the estimated 5,500 glaciers in the Hindu KushHimalayan region -site of many of the world's tallest peaks, including Mount Everest -could reduce their volume by 70-99% by 2100, with dire consequences for farming and hydropower generation downstream.
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		+	==Rapidly losing ice==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/article-share?article=07_02_2022_013_014_cap_TOI Mt Everest’s highest glacier rapidly losing ice, says study, February 7, 2022: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Kathmandu: Ice on a glacier near the summit of Mount Everest that took millennia to form has shrunk dramatically in the last three decades due to climate change, a new study has shown. The South Col formation may already have lost around 55 metres of thickness in the last 25 years, according to research led by the University of Maine and published this week by Nature.
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		+	Carbon dating showed the toplayer of icewas around2,000 years old, suggesting that the glacier was thinning over 80 times faster than the time it took to form, the study said. At that rate, South Col was “probably going to disappear within very few decades”, lead scientist Paul Mayewski told National Geographic. “It’s quite a remarkable transition,” he added.
		+	The South Col glacier is around 7,900 metres above sea level and a kilometre below the peak of Mt Everest. Other researchers have shown that Himalayan glaciers are melting at an accelerating rate. As the glaciers shrink, hundreds of lakes have formed in the foothills of Himalayan mountains that could burst and cause floods.  AFP
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-[[File: Deaths on the Everest, some figures, 2004-16.jpg|Deaths on the Everest, some figures, 2004-16; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=30_05_2016_012_046_003&type=P&artUrl=THE-DEATHS-ON-EVEREST-30052016012046&eid=31808 ''The Times of India''], May 30, 2016|frame|500px]]
-[[File: Altitude sickness and some casualties on the climb up to Mt. Everest in April- May 2016, the first climbing season since 2014.jpg| Altitude sickness and some casualties on the climb up to Mt. Everest in April- May 2016, the first climbing season since 2014; Graphic courtesy: [http://epaperbeta.timesofindia.com/Gallery.aspx?id=24_05_2016_016_032_011&type=P&artUrl=1-climber-dies-at-Everest-2-missing-24052016016032&eid=31808 ''The Times of India''], May 24, 2016|frame|500px]]
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 There is a growing concern about the commercialisation of climbing Everest. Many tour companies promise they can take ordinary people to the top if they can bear the expense.This has increased the number of people attempting the climb as well as the death toll. Several people have died in the attempts and their remains are left on the peak. It has also increased pollution on Everest, now littered with oxygen canisters, human waste and dead bodies.
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	==How mountains are measured==		==How mountains are measured==
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	Sources: BBC, National Geographic, France24		Sources: BBC, National Geographic, France24
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		+	==How mountains are measured==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F12%2F14&entity=Ar01215&sk=8ED2C75F&mode=image December 14, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	'''See graphic''':
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		+	'' How the height of mountains is measured ''

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	However, earlier this year, with Covid hitting the climbing season, China sent a survey team to the summit with global satellite receivers to measure its northern side. Nepal had measured the southern side in 2019. NYT		However, earlier this year, with Covid hitting the climbing season, China sent a survey team to the summit with global satellite receivers to measure its northern side. Nepal had measured the southern side in 2019. NYT
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		+	==How Mount Everest Got Taller ==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F12%2F13&entity=Ar00411&sk=1BE0E374&mode=text December 13, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	HOW MOUNT EVEREST GOT TALLER
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		+	It’s official. Mount Everest is now 8,848.86m. That’s 86cm higher than the mountain’s previously recognised height. A look at the challenges of measuring a mountain
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		+	''' Where did 8,848 come from? '''
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		+	Everest height was first calculated at 8,840m in 1956 by a team led by British surveyor Sir George Everest, the man whom the mountain was named after. An Indian survey in 1953 readjusted the height to 8,848m following Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay’s first ever survey of the peak. In this pre-satellite era, surveyors would lug around a device called the theodolite to measure its height
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		+	Why did they measure Everest again
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		+	Some geologists suggested that the devastating 2015 earthquake may have impacted Everest’s height by making its snow cap shrink. Others argued that the plate tectonic collision that has been occurring for the last 40 to 50 million years as the Indian plate pushes into the Eurasian plate could have increased the height. So both Nepal and China decided to ascertain its true height
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		+	Peak confusion over estimates
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		+	China believed that the mountain should be measured according to its rock height, while Nepal went by snowcap and thus came up with a taller estimate. The issue got mired in politics till surveyors from both countries coordinated and finally agreed on the new height of 8,848.86m
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		+	''' How Nepal went about it '''
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		+	2 years’ training for Nepalese surveyors since this was the first time they were measuring Everest themselves.
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		+	300 Nepali surveyors were on the job — some walking, others overhead on helicopters
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		+	1 toe lost as Nepal’s lead surveyor Khimlal Gautam had frostbite while installing GPS equipment on the summit
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		+	250km sequence of line-ofsight stations built to triangulate an accurate height
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		+	Sources: BBC, National Geographic, France24

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	There is a growing concern about the commercialisation of climbing Everest. Many tour companies promise they can take ordinary people to the top if they can bear the expense.This has increased the number of people attempting the climb as well as the death toll. Several people have died in the attempts and their remains are left on the peak. It has also increased pollution on Everest, now littered with oxygen canisters, human waste and dead bodies.		There is a growing concern about the commercialisation of climbing Everest. Many tour companies promise they can take ordinary people to the top if they can bear the expense.This has increased the number of people attempting the climb as well as the death toll. Several people have died in the attempts and their remains are left on the peak. It has also increased pollution on Everest, now littered with oxygen canisters, human waste and dead bodies.
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		+	=Height=
		+	== 8,848.86m (29,031.7ft). / 2020==
		+	[https://epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TimesOfIndia/shared/ShowArticle.aspx?doc=TOIDEL%2F2020%2F12%2F09&entity=Ar00312&sk=39588763&mode=text Bhadra Sharma & Emily Schmall, December 9, 2020: ''The Times of India'']
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		+	Mount Everest has risen almost 3 feet. China and Nepal, which share a mountainous border, announced on Tuesday they have jointly determined the height of the world’s tallest mountain as 8,848.86m (29,031.7ft).
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		+	For 65 years, Everest’s height had been considered to be 8,848m (29,028.87ft). India had in 2017 offered to remeasure Everest, but Nepal rejected it, saying its surveyors were capable of doing it.
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		+	However, earlier this year, with Covid hitting the climbing season, China sent a survey team to the summit with global satellite receivers to measure its northern side. Nepal had measured the southern side in 2019. NYT
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	=Deaths on the Mt. Everest=		=Deaths on the Mt. Everest=