Some might have to do it again!
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Everesting
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Everesting
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redefined_cycles
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Re: Everesting
I don't get it...
The article begins by saying that it's, 'more than two feet taller' with the next paragraph stating:
The article begins by saying that it's, 'more than two feet taller' with the next paragraph stating:
But then further down it gives the previous agreed elevation as...THE HIGHEST POINT on Earth has a newly announced elevation. Mount Everest is 29,031.69 feet above sea level, according to survey results presented today.
Am I being thick or is the new findings actually 3 feet shorter and not 2 feet taller!!Then in 1999 a survey led by cartographer and explorer Bradford Washburn, and sponsored by the National Geographic Society, was the first to use GPS technology to measure the Everest summit. That team’s work delivered an altitude of 29,035—the figure still in use by the Society until the new measurements can be fully verified.
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Re: Everesting
Well the Himalaya are still growing because India is still pushing northwards due to plate tectonics. Everest is growing by about 4mm a year because of this. Countering that you have the effects of erosion. Complicating everything is the snow cover which can vary, it's nominally 3.5 metres at the summit of Everest.
Shaf, the higher figure you quote has never been the official figure.
Anyway, Everest is 8848(.86)m high. I think most Everesters (in the cycling sense) do a bit more anyway just to cover inaccuracies in the height gain of their chosen segment so it will be a while before anyone gets disqualified.
Shaf, the higher figure you quote has never been the official figure.
Anyway, Everest is 8848(.86)m high. I think most Everesters (in the cycling sense) do a bit more anyway just to cover inaccuracies in the height gain of their chosen segment so it will be a while before anyone gets disqualified.
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Re: Everesting
Aha... Thanks for that Bobwhitestone wrote: ↑Tue Dec 08, 2020 11:48 am Well the Himalaya are still growing because India is still pushing northwards due to plate tectonics. Everest is growing by about 4mm a year because of this. Countering that you have the effects of erosion. Complicating everything is the snow cover which can vary, it's nominally 3.5 metres at the summit of Everest.
Shaf, the higher figure you quote has never been the official figure.
Anyway, Everest is 8848(.86)m high. I think most Everesters (in the cycling sense) do a bit more anyway just to cover inaccuracies in the height gain of their chosen segment so it will be a while before anyone gets disqualified.
