Thursday, December 18, 2008

Mt. Everest


Mt. Everest also called Sagarmatha is the highest mountain in Earth. The mountain which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located in the border between Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, and Tibet, China.The mountain stills has many inheret dangers such as altitude sickness. This mountainb grows about a quarter an inch every year. On October 9, 2005, after several months of measurement and calculation, the PRC's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the height of Everest as 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft.).

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