Team remeasures world's highest peak to settle debate

Most seasoned mountain climbers' bucket lists include Qomolangma, known in the West as Mount Everest, as they are often motivated by the thrill of reaching the world's highest peak.

But for Khim Lal Gautam, Nepal's chief surveyor and leader of the first Nepali government-appointed team to measure Qomolangma, climbing the mountain is a source of pride.

Gautam's team went on a monthlong expedition in April to remeasure the height of Qomolangma, which is more than 8,000 meters above sea level. This was meant to settle the debate in the international geological community on whether the mountain shrank after a magnitude 7.8 earthquake devastated Nepal in April 2015.