The height of Mount Everest will soon be "re-measured" by the Survey of India.
This is to determine whether the world's tallest peak has really shrunk following the earthquake in Nepal two years ago.
Mount Everest officially stands at 8,848 metres (29,028 feet) above sea level.
The project would help the future scientific studies as well, Surveyor General of India Swarna Subba Rao said.
Everest's height was declared in 1855.
Many others also measured it.
But the height given by Survey of India, even today, is taken as the correct height. It is 29,028 ft.
Mount Everest is planned to be measured this time by two methods - using Global Positioning System(GPS) and a ground method.
One is GPS. It is a survey instrument. It looks like a transistor. If you put it on the summit, say for 10 minutes, it tells you the height.
The Second is, ground method. Triangulation. The height can be calculated from ground.
A massive 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck Nepal in 2015, altering the landscape across the Himalayan nation.
