China Team Sent To Measure The Height Of Everest Reached Its Peak
The Chinese expedition
team, which set off on May 7 to precisely measure the height of the world's
highest peak, Mount Everest, is reported to have reached the summit.
The group of 30
members of measurement experts and professional mountaineers from the Ministry
of Natural Resources completed the summit journey that they started from
the main camp on the Chinese side of the mountain on the
Nepal-China border, according to the news from the Chinese
official news agency Xinhua.
IT WILL START AT THE
HIGHEST POINT
It is stated that the team
will try to make a precise measurement of the altitude at the highest point of
the mountain with the help of Global Positioning System (GPS) signals coming
from satellites at the summit and tools and devices such as gravimetry
measuring specific gravity on the ground.
It was also noted that the
team will conduct experiments and screening studies to identify natural
resources.
China previously sent
exploration groups to Everest in 1975 and 2005 to measure the exact altitude of
the summit. At that time, the height of the mountain was measured 8.848
meters 13 inches and 8.844 meters 43 inches, respectively.
China announced on 12 March
that it had stopped climbing its borders on Mount Everest because of the
coronavirus outbreak.
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