{"id":67030,"date":"2024-10-01T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T15:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/30\/mount-everest-is-having-a-growth-spurt-say-researchers"},"modified":"2024-10-01T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T15:00:04","slug":"mount-everest-is-having-a-growth-spurt-say-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67030","title":{"rendered":"Mount Everest is having a growth spurt, say researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>River erosion has pushed the mountain upwards and added an extra 15 to 50 metres over the past 89,000 years<\/p>\n<p>Climbing Mount Everest has always been a feat, but it seems the task might be getting harder: researchers say Everest is having something of a growth spurt.<\/p>\n<p>The Himalayas formed about 50m years ago, when the Indian subcontinent smashed into the Eurasian tectonic plate \u2013 although <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-023-01243-x\">recent research<\/a> has suggested the edges of these plates <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2023-08-paleoaltimetry-assumptions-formation-himalayas.html\">were already very high<\/a> before the collision.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/sep\/30\/mount-everest-is-having-a-growth-spurt-say-researchers\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River erosion has pushed the mountain upwards and added an extra 15 to 50 metres over the past 89,000 yearsClimbing Mount Everest has always been a feat, but it seems the task might be getting harder: researchers say Everest is having something of a gr&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2094,"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":[50,65,2814,608,760,241,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-environment","category-geology","category-mount-everest","category-mountains","category-nepal","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67030","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\/2094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67030"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67030\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67031,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67030\/revisions\/67031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}