There have been speculations that Mt. Everest has shrunk. To address this, which country is sending an expedition to remeasure the height of Mt. Everest?
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The scientists from Nepal were sent to check if there is any decrease in the magnitude of the mountain.
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The disastrous earthquake in 2015 in Nepal caused massive destruction by killing 9000 and injuring several thousands of people. The scientists believe that the earthquake of 7.8 Richter may have lowered the magnitude of the Mount Everest. Though the magnitude of Mt. Everest was declared in 1855, the recorded height of 29,029 feet by the survey of India is accepted worldwide.
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Nepal had sent a govt team of steep mountain climbers to scale the Mt. Everest so as to measure its heights in the hopes of quashing the continuing speculation that the highest mountain of the world Mount Everest having shrunk due to the massive earthquake that hit Nepal in the year 2015
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- Nepal was struck on 25th April 2015 by the 7.8-magnitude earthquake that had destroyed multistorey buildings on , which in the Himalayan Mountains, the capital, Kathmandu, created landslides and avalanches. Close to 9000 people were killed and over 22000 were injured. In the seismically active area in 81 years, this was the most deadly earthquake.
- Humanitarian organisations, with relief and recovery teams & immediate aid deliveries, quickly responded to the disaster. Work remains on the reconstruction of schools , clinics and homes and livelihoods as well as the resilience of communities and families to environmental shocks.
- However after the large earthquake in Nepal in the year 2015 a fierce debate broke out with proposals that the mighty tremor had struck the highest point of Mt Everest. In the year 2017, the Nepalese Survey Department had ordered a group of surveyors to prepare for an expédition to the Everest in the hope of putting to rest the speculation
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