Question

The height of mount everest was first determind by

Answer 1

Andrew Waugh announced Everest as 8,840 m (29,002 ft).

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Answer 2

Answer:

The height of Mount Everest was first determined by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India  in 1856.

Explanation:

In 1847, Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India found a peak in the eastern end of the Himalayas which was higher than Kangchenjunga.

Andrew Waugh named the mountain after his predecessor sir George Everest, though Everest himself opposed the idea .

In 1856, Andrew Waugh announced that Everest was 29,002 feet (8,840 m) high.  But the most accepted elevation of 8,848 m (29,029 ft) was first  determined by an Indian survey in 1955.