{"id":25554,"date":"2020-12-08T21:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/mount-everest-china-and-nepal-agree-on-new-taller-height"},"modified":"2020-12-08T21:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T12:30:00","slug":"mount-everest-china-and-nepal-agree-on-new-taller-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=25554","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest: China and Nepal agree on new, taller height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Countries have settled on 8,848.86m \u2013 higher than either\u2019s previous measurements<\/p>\n<p>Mount Everest is marginally higher than previously thought, according to a new joint Chinese-Nepali calculation that settles a long-running conflict over the height of the world\u2019s tallest peak, which straddles the countries\u2019 shared border.<\/p>\n<p>Kathmandu and Beijing had differed over its exact height, but after each sent an expedition of surveyors to the summit they have agreed that the official height is 8,848.86 metres (29,032ft), a bit more than their previous calculations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/dec\/08\/mount-everest-china-and-nepal-agree-on-new-taller-height\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countries have settled on 8,848.86m \u2013 higher than either\u2019s previous measurementsMount Everest is marginally higher than previously thought, according to a new joint Chinese-Nepali calculation that settles a long-running conflict over the height of the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"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":[41,50,65,608,239,760,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-environment","category-mount-everest","category-mountaineering","category-mountains","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25554"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25555,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25554\/revisions\/25555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}