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Mt Everest's Snow Cover Receded By 150 Metres This Winter, Show Satellite Images
A 'rising snow line' -- in which snow melts at lower heights, forcing the snow line boundary up a mountainside -- is suggestive of a warming climate.
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Bahrain Prince Scales Mt Everest's New Height, 1st Foreign Team To Do So
A 16-member Bahrain Royal Guard team led by prince Mohammed Hamad Mohammed Al Khalifa today became the first international team to conquer the new altitude of Mount Everest.
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Nepal, China To Announce Revised Height Of Mount Everest Soon: Report
Nepal and China will jointly announce the revised height of Mt Everest, the world's highest peak, probably during the upcoming visit of the Chinese defence minister to the Himalayan nation, according to media reports on Thursday.
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Is Everest Shrinking? Nepal's Mission To Measure World's Tallest Mountain
When Khim Lal Gautam reached the top of Mount Everest at 3 a.m. on May 22, it was dark, windy and lethally cold. Gautam carried some unusual baggage - a ground-penetrating radar and a top-of-the-line satellite navigation device. Unlike most climbers, he and his team remained at the summit for nearly two hours so they could take the measurements the...
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Expedition From Nepal To Remeasure Height Of Mount Everest, Say Officials
Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said Monday, hoping to quash persistent speculation that the world's tallest mountain has shrunk.
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Nepal Rejects India's Offer To Jointly Re-Measure Mt Everest
Nepal has rejected India's offer to jointly re-measure the height of the world's highest peak Mount Everest following the massive earthquake in 2015 and will carry out the exercise on its own, the top official of the Himalayan nation's survey department has said.
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Mt Everest's Snow Cover Receded By 150 Metres This Winter, Show Satellite Images
A 'rising snow line' -- in which snow melts at lower heights, forcing the snow line boundary up a mountainside -- is suggestive of a warming climate.
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Bahrain Prince Scales Mt Everest's New Height, 1st Foreign Team To Do So
A 16-member Bahrain Royal Guard team led by prince Mohammed Hamad Mohammed Al Khalifa today became the first international team to conquer the new altitude of Mount Everest.
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Nepal, China To Announce Revised Height Of Mount Everest Soon: Report
Nepal and China will jointly announce the revised height of Mt Everest, the world's highest peak, probably during the upcoming visit of the Chinese defence minister to the Himalayan nation, according to media reports on Thursday.
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Is Everest Shrinking? Nepal's Mission To Measure World's Tallest Mountain
When Khim Lal Gautam reached the top of Mount Everest at 3 a.m. on May 22, it was dark, windy and lethally cold. Gautam carried some unusual baggage - a ground-penetrating radar and a top-of-the-line satellite navigation device. Unlike most climbers, he and his team remained at the summit for nearly two hours so they could take the measurements the...
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Expedition From Nepal To Remeasure Height Of Mount Everest, Say Officials
Nepal is sending a team of government-appointed climbers up Mount Everest to remeasure its height, officials said Monday, hoping to quash persistent speculation that the world's tallest mountain has shrunk.
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Nepal Rejects India's Offer To Jointly Re-Measure Mt Everest
Nepal has rejected India's offer to jointly re-measure the height of the world's highest peak Mount Everest following the massive earthquake in 2015 and will carry out the exercise on its own, the top official of the Himalayan nation's survey department has said.
