What is the height of Mount Everest ?

Answer 1

an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852, using trigonometric calculations based on measurements of "Peak XV" (as it was then known) made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India. Measurement could not be made from closer due to a lack of access to Nepal. Peak XV was found to be exactly 29,000 feet (8,839 m) high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 feet (8,840 m). The arbitrary addition of 2 feet (0.6 m) was to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.

More recently, the mountain has been found to be 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high, although there is some variation in the measurements. The mountain K2 comes in second at 8,611 m (28,251 ft) high. On May 22, 2005, the People's Republic of China's Everest Expedition Team ascended to the top of the mountain. After several months' complicated measurement and calculation, on October 9, 2005, the PRC's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the height of Everest as 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft). They claimed it was the most accurate measurement to date.[8] But this new height is based on the actual highest point of rock and not on the snow and ice that sits on top of that rock on the summit, so, in keeping with the practice used on Mont Blanc and Khan Tangiri Shyngy, it is not shown here. The Chinese also measured a snow/ice depth of 3.5 m,[9] which implies agreement with a net elevation of 8,848 m. But in reality the snow and ice thickness varies, making a definitive height of the snow cap, and hence the precise height attained by summiteers without sophisticated GPS, impossible to determine.

Answer 2

Actual Height Of Mount Everest

Answer 3

Elevation(height) 8,848 metres (29,029 ft)
Ranked 1st (the tallest mountain above sea level)
Location Nepal Tibet, China
Range Mahalangur Himal, Himalaya
Prominence 8,848 m (29,029 ft)
Coordinates 27°59′17″N, 86°55′31″ECoordinates: 27°59′17″N, 86°55′31″E(i wonder if you would understand this)
First ascent (First person the reach the top) May 29, 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
Easiest route South Col (Nepal)

To tell you the truth the tallest mountain in the world is at Hawaii.
IT'S NAME IS Mauna Kea.
It rises an astonishing 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth.

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A third way to determine the world's highest mountain is to measure the distance from the center of the earth to the peak. Using this method, Chimborazo in the Andes triumphs. Although it stands but 20,561 feet (6,267 meters) above sea level, its peak is the farthest from the earth's center.

Answer 4

8,848 metres (29,029 ft)

Mount Everest, also called Chomolungma or Qomolangma (Tibetan: ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ) or Sagarmatha (Nepali: सगरमाथा) is the highest mountain on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet, China. By the end of the 2006 climbing season there had been 3,050 ascents to the summit by 2,062 individuals, and at least 630 more ascents in 2007. There have been more than 200 deaths on the mountain where conditions are so difficult that most corpses have been left where they fell, some of them visible from standard climbing routes.[4]

Climbers range from experienced mountaineers to relative novices who count on their paid guides to get them to the top. This means climbers are a significant source of tourist revenue for Nepal, whose government also requires all prospective climbers to obtain an expensive permit, often costing more than $25,000 (USD) per person.

Answer 5

Mountains are generally measured from sea level, in which case Mount Everest (29,028 feet; 8,848 meters) is king.

Answer 6

The height of mt Everest is 8488 meter & it grows every year taller 1 inch due to the snow that falls on it .
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Answer 7

More recently, the mountain has been found to be 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high, although there is some variation in the measurements

Answer 8

More recently, the mountain has been found to be 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high, although there is some variation in the measurements.

Answer 9

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8488 meter

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Answer 10

Unofficially it is 29,028 feet 8848 meters to 8850 meters or 29,035 ft and another has it at 29029 feet.