In the Tibetan language, Mount Everest is known as Mount Qomolangma. (File)
Beijing:
On Wednesday, a Chinese investigation team reached Mount Everest across Tibet to re-measure the exact height of the world‘s tallest mountain.
According to Chinese measurements, the height of Mount Everest is 8,844.43 meters, four meters less than Nepal’s calculations, state media reported.
On May 1, China, which differs from Nepal on the height of Mount Everest, began a new survey to measure the altitude of the world‘s highest peak.
The event marked a crucial milestone in China’s mission to re-measure the height of the world‘s highest peak, which scientists say will enhance human knowledge of nature and help boost scientific development, reported the official Xinhua news agency.
After the summit, team members began erecting an investigation marker on the snowy peak, which measures less than 20 square meters, the report said.
Chinese investigators carried out six series of measurements and scientific research at scale on Mount Everest and published twice the height of the peak in 1975 and 2005, which were 8,848.13 meters and 8,844.43 meters, respectively. according to the report.
In the Tibetan language, Mount Everest is known as Mount Qomolangma.
“The changes in Mount Qomolangma are of paramount importance for global studies of geology and ecology, and have a major impact on people’s lives,” said Chen Gang, an engineer with the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Mount Everest is located in the collision and compression zone between the edges of the Indian plate and the Eurasian plate, where crustal movement is very active.
“Accurately measuring the height of Mount Qomolangma is useful for studying changes in elevation in the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau,” said Gao Dengyi, atmospheric physicist at the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
The team members stayed at the top for two and a half hours, a new record for Chinese climbers.
China and Nepal settled their border dispute in 1961 with the border crossing the summit of Mount Everest.
More and more international climbers would use the Tibetan side of Mount Everest because China has improved infrastructure compared to that of Nepal.
China, which closed Qomolangma National Park in southwest China’s Tibet Autonomous Region as a precaution following the coronavirus epidemic, reopened it on May 1, coinciding with the May 1 vacation.
Nepal closed all of its Himalayan peaks, including Mount Everest, in March due to the coronavirus epidemic.
Chinese technology company Huawei is working with China Mobile to build two 5G stations on Mount Everest.
The stations should cover the top of the mountain. The two facilities will be the tallest 5G land base stations in the world, Global Times reported on May 1.
“The 6,500 meter high point will probably be the highest point where Huawei can build a 5G station, but it remains to be tested if the signal can reach the summit at 8,848 meters. We are trying to make it happen” said Zhang Bo, Huawei project manager.
