Posted on 12/08/2020 3:10:24 PM PST by nickcarraway
The highest point on Earth got a bit higher Tuesday (Dec 8) as China and Nepal finally agreed on a precise elevation for Mount Everest after decades of debate.
The agreed height unveiled at a joint news conference in Kathmandu of 8,848.86m was 86cm higher than the measurement previously recognised by Nepal, and more than four metres above China's official figure.
The discrepancy was due to China measuring the rock base on the summit and not - as with the new reading - the covering of snow and ice on the peak.
(Excerpt) Read more at channelnewsasia.com ...
gonna be a tougher climb now
Kudos to anyone willing to climb 🧗🏽to the peak and pray for America right now!
Related:
Everest Explorer Finds Incredible Religious Treasure Trove In Nepal
May 20, 2011
KATHMANDU, NEPAL, February 26, 2010: Some people live charmed lives. In 2004, two years after he climbed Mt. Everest for the seventh time, American mountaineering legend Peter Athans took part in a charitable cataract operation project in northern Nepal that changed the lives of nearly 300 beneficiaries. That has led to a discovery that, once fully understood, could throw light on the early days of the oldest religions in the world.
“I made a lot of friends during the eye camp,” says Athans. “Some of them took me to a cluster of (man-made) caves that remain hidden due to the height and the difficulty to get inside . . . There was no knowledge of who created the caves and I thought this was an intriguing mystery, worthy of further research and discussion,” he said.
In 2008, the government of Nepal and the Department of Archaeology signed an agreement with Sky Door Foundation, an NGO started in Nepal by Athans, to explore the caves and make an inventory. Two years later, the exploring team came across major finds in the network of caves in Mustang, a remote mountainous district in northernmost Nepal that was once part of an ancient Tibetan kingdom.
The expedition has found caves designed at different levels with the lower levels usually used as granaries and the uppermost being burial sites. In between, the space contains murals that though now fading and crumbling down are still exquisite, two immense libraries containing almost 10,000 ancient manuscripts in old Tibetan script, some of which are beautifully illuminated, and the remains of 27 people, the oldest of whom dates back to 100 years BCE.
The cave artefacts show a fusion of Tibetan and Indian religious art. Some of it shows the influence of the art that prevailed in India during the Gupta empire of Hindu kings who ruled from 320-480 AD. “Some of the murals have images of men and women who were Indian mahasiddhas (yogis with supernatural power),” says Leisl, Athans’ wife.
I still won’t climb it.
To the North of Everest is Tibet. The Chinese invaded it and now call it China and say it was always China. The Tibetan people do not look at all like the Chinese.
Eventually the same will happen to Nepal.
Since it has been gradually cluttered with more and more trash, I think the name should be changed to “Mt Landfill”.
The Maoists are already bringing Hope and Change to Nepal.
"The Mountain with the biggest t@ts in the world."
“The Teton Range is a mountain range of the Rocky Mountains in North America. It extends for approximately 40 miles in a north–south direction through the U.S. state of Wyoming, east of the Idaho state line. It is south of Yellowstone National Park and most of the east side of the range is within Grand Teton National Park.
One theory says the early French voyageurs named the range les trois tétons (”the three nipples”) after the breast-like shapes of its peaks.[2]
Another theory says the range is named for the Teton Sioux, also known as the Lakota people. [3]
It is likely that the local Shoshone people once called the whole range Teewinot, meaning “many pinnacles”.[4]”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teton_Range
I saw what you did there.
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