{"id":497,"date":"2011-07-22T02:32:56","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T08:32:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/?p=497"},"modified":"2011-07-20T02:34:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T08:34:49","slug":"nepal-re-measures-mount-everest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/2011\/07\/22\/nepal-re-measures-mount-everest\/","title":{"rendered":"Nepal re-measures Mount Everest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

NEPAL has begun a project to re-measure Mount Everest in an attempt to end confusion about the exact height of the world’s tallest peak, a government spokesman in Kathmandu said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Everest, which straddles Nepal and China, is generally thought to stand at 8,848mafter an Indian survey in 1954, but other more recent measurements have varied by several metres.<\/p>\n

Gopal Giri, a spokesman with the Nepalese land reform and management ministry, said that during border talks between the two countries, the Chinese delegates often use their measurement of 8,844m.<\/p>\n

‘We have begun the measurement to clear this confusion. Now we have the technology and the resources, we can measure ourselves,’ Mr Giri said.<\/p>\n

‘This will be the first time the Nepal government has taken the mountain’s height.’<\/p>\n

He said that the project’s results would only be known in two years’ time after reference points are set up on Everest and then global-positioning system satellites are used to calculate the precise measurement. <\/p>\n

Photo: AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEPAL has begun a project to re-measure Mount Everest in an attempt to end confusion about the exact height of the world’s tallest peak, a government spokesman in Kathmandu said on Tuesday. Everest, which straddles Nepal and China, is generally thought to stand at 8,848mafter an Indian survey in 1954, but other more recent measurements […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":498,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/497\/revisions\/498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ubune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}