{"id":22631,"date":"2020-09-11T15:13:18","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T06:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/mount-everest-nepal-and-china-prepare-to-reveal-new-height-after-covid-delay"},"modified":"2020-09-11T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2020-09-11T06:13:18","slug":"mount-everest-nepal-and-china-prepare-to-reveal-new-height-after-covid-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=22631","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest: Nepal and China prepare to reveal new height after Covid delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Competing teams have both completed trips to the summit but plans have been disrupted by the pandemic<\/p>\n<p>Some time in the near future \u2013 after a wait of a decade \u2013 the world will learn the new height of Mount Everest.<\/p>\n<p>China and Nepal have teamed up to measure the world\u2019s highest mountain which straddles their border and, under a 2019 memorandum of understanding, they must announce their findings together. The announcement was reportedly delayed because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/sep\/11\/mount-everest-nepal-and-china-prepare-to-reveal-new-height-after-covid-delay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Competing teams have both completed trips to the summit but plans have been disrupted by the pandemicSome time in the near future \u2013 after a wait of a decade \u2013 the world will learn the new height of Mount Everest.China and Nepal have teamed up to measur&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":297,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,65,608,760,241,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-mount-everest","category-mountains","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22631"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22632,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22631\/revisions\/22632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}