The height of the world's tallest mountain, Mount Qomolangma, has been updated by surveyors and it is now measured as standing 8,848.86 meters above sea level.
The updated measurement was jointly announced by President Xi Jinping and his Nepalese counterpart, Bidya Devi Bhandari, as they exchanged letters on Tuesday.
Qomolangma survey team reaches new heights in detection
The new height of Mount Qomolangma was announced on Tuesday. Behind that, more than 70 surveyor team members of the 1st Geodetic Surveying Brigade and 46 technicians from the geodetic data processing center at the Ministry of Natural Resources participated in the measurement of Qomolangma. Let's take a look at the efforts made by the surveying team and data processing center researchers.
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