{"id":98881017,"date":"2011-07-24T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-24T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/travel-trends\/just-how-tall-is-mt-everest-china-nepal-squabble-over-height\/"},"modified":"2011-07-24T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-24T10:00:00","slug":"just-how-tall-is-mt-everest-china-nepal-squabble-over-height","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/just-how-tall-is-mt-everest-china-nepal-squabble-over-height\/","title":{"rendered":"Just How Tall is Mt. Everest? China, Nepal Squabble Over Height"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFor years China and Nepal have been involved in a dispute over the exact height of Mt. Everest.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nInternationally recognized as the world&rsquo;s tallest mountain, Everest straddles the border of the neighboring nations, each of which claims its own official measurement.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhile Nepal stands by the 1954 measurement of 8,848 meters, China often lists the height of the mountain at 8,844 meters. Those four meters are creating quite the controversy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nNepal hopes to put an end to the discussion by calculating a precise measurement of Everest&rsquo;s height using sophisticated GPS technology, a process that could take up to two years to complete.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nWhen we heard that Nepal was willing to spend two years to differentiate between four meters we had to ask ourselves, &ldquo;Aren&rsquo;t they making a mountain out of a molehill here?&rdquo; &nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<em>Source: <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/scitech\/2011\/07\/20\/mt-everest-to-be-re-measured\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fox News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For years China and Nepal have been involved in a dispute over the exact height of Mt. Everest. &nbsp; Internationally recognized as the world&rsquo;s tallest mountain, Everest straddles the border of the neighboring nations, each of which claims its own official measurement. &nbsp; While Nepal stands by the 1954 measurement of 8,848 meters, China often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98881017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98881017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98881017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98881017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98881017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onetravel.com\/going-places\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98881017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}