Why Mount Everest is Now 8,848.86m The Story Behind the Number That Changed Everything
On December 8, 2020, Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali stood at a lectern in Kathmandu and made an announcement that altered a number that had been in every geography textbook on earth for sixty-six years. “This is a historic day,” he said. He was right. For the first time in Nepal’s history as an independent nation, the country had conducted…