Nepal against China…

Correct, it's all about Mt Everest, laying at the border of Nepal and Tibet. And since Tibet has been 'mastered' by China... at the border of China as well. The discussion is all about the height of this giant, goddess and gold mine as well.

China exclaiming the height of 8844.43m, Nepal the familiair height of 8848m. Now you're probably curious; where does this difference come from? Do they use other kind of measurement euipment, inaccurate or different calibration methods or what???!

Quite simple; China is measuring the rock height, while Nepal is targeting at rock + snow height!

The question remains.... Who is right here...? You tell me...  At least both countries now accepted eachothers measurements and vision. However, they still didn't come to an agreement which height will be adopted by both of them. That will probably take another 10 years, or more ;-) !!!

  - Adopted from the Kathmandu Post, April 8th 2010