Chinese surveying team reaches Mount Qomolangma summit

By Yang Wanli | chinadaily.com.cn/Xinhua | Updated: 2020-05-27 07:00
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Chinese mountaineering guides work on a route to the summit of Mount Qomolangma on May 26, 2020. [Photo/Xinhua]

China initiated a new round of measurements to determine the height of Mount Qomolangma on April 30, but bad weather twice delayed plans to reach the summit.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1949, Chinese surveyors have conducted six rounds of scaled measurements and scientific research on Mount Qomolangma and released the height of the peak twice in 1975 and 2005, which was 8,848.13 meters and 8,844.43 meters, respectively.

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