The precise height of Mount Everest - now listed as 29,029 feet, or 8,848 meters - has been contested since the first survey by British officers in 1849. On January 2020, Nepal plans to end the controversy and declare both snow and rock height of the world's tallest mountain. This spring a two-member Nepali survey team will summit the mountain with a Trimble R10 GNSS receiver, gifted by New Zealand. Besides a GNSS survey at the summit, teams will conduct precise leveling, trigonometric leveling and gravity surveys. The GNSS survey will cover 285 points with 12 different observation stations, nine of which are in hills of Sankhuwasava, Bhojpur and Solukhumbu districts.
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