Mt. Everest 2005: Chinese re-measure Everest using GPS Update: on the Summit push!

Photo Tom West Everest 2004 ©EverestNews.com

Update: The Chinese are on a summit push right now! And measuring the Peak ! Stay tuned and we will let you how it turns out. We are told 22 climbers, not sure if that is 22 plus Sherpas (Tibetans to them) or 22 total...

The Chinese have announced they are starting up to ABC. Around thirty Chinese scientists are planning to re-measure  Qomolangma (Mount Everest). Kang Shichang is the research leader of the expedition and a famous fellow at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Qomolangma has been measured 4 times by the Chinese with the last being 8848.13 meters by Chinese scientists in 1975. However scientists believe because of global warning the mountain has shrunk. The Chinese plan to install a GPS to re-measure the height of the mountain. A joint team Chinese and Japanese women team will also attempt the Mount Everest, the lines between these expeditions appear hard to define at this point.

Some ask, why don't they just take a GPS up there and see what it says! GPS's do not measure very well at 7000 meters and above. Therefore the Chinese plan to use/install a dish! They also plan to a sophisticated radar detector to measure the current height of Mt. Everest.

If it could just see pictures of George Mallory's wife...

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