Nepal's Foreign Ministry on Tuesday announced newly-measured height of Mount Everest, the world's tallest peak. 8848.86 metres is the newly-measured height of Mount Everest, Nepal's Foreign Minister announced. The current height of the mountain, 8,848 metres, was measured in 1954 by the Survey of India. The announcement was made here by the Department of Survey in a virtual programme attended by Nepali and Chinese officials, reports said.

Nepal decided to re-measure the peak after speculations that the widely accepted figure might not be the actual height after the 2015 earthquake. Nepal government officials coordinated with China, who sent its own team to measure the mountain's height.

Nepal decided to remeasure the peak after speculations that the widely accepted height might not be the actual height after the 2015 earthquake.

Minister for Foreign Affairs Pradeep Kumar Gyawali and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi were present at the virtual programme, who read out the letters written by their respective heads-of-the-state, resident Bidya Devi Bhandari and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

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