How high is Qomolangma? The answer may surprise you
By Randy Wright | China Daily | Updated: 2019-06-26 07:47
A recent article I helped write for China Daily about Tibetan guides on Qomolangma (known as Mount Everest in the West) called forth a basic question: How high is this thing?
Altitude is, of course, an essential fact in any story about the highest mountain in the world. And so, without thinking much about it, I grabbed the figure listed by most everyone - 8,848 meters above sea level, give or take a smidgen.
It's one of the best-known altitudes in the world, so this was a slam-dunk, right? No need to look further, right? Everybody's going to agree, right?
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