Kathmandu, May 22
A Nepal government team sent to re-measure the height of Mount Everest by the Survey Department has reached its summit on Wednesday morning.
Surveyors Khimlal Gautam, Rabin Karki, Suraj Singh Bhandari, and Yuvaraj Dhital reached the top of Everest at 3:15 am on Wednesday. Prakash Joshi Director General at the Survey Department informed that the officials spent an hour there recording signals from satellites.
He added that it would take around two months to calculate the exact height of the mountain. The team is on its way back to Base Camp.
The expedition team assigned by the government had left for the Everest on April 10 to re-measure the height of the world’s highest peak. Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli had bid farewell to the expedition team members.
The government is measuring the height of Mount Everest after the international community said that its height might have changed after the 2015 earthquake.
