How Tall Is Mount Everest? Hint: It Changes
Short Wave
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4.7 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 21 July 2021
⏱️ 15 minutes
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Read Lauren's reporting on Mt. Everest.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, so it is summertime here in the US and I hope you've been able to get |
| 0:06.1 | outdoors for a little bit, you know, like enjoy nature, get a walk or a hike in. |
| 0:11.8 | And speaking of which, today's episode is about a dream destination for many a hiker, |
| 0:18.2 | Mount Everest. |
| 0:19.6 | Since we originally aired the episode, China and Nepal came out with a formal announcement |
| 0:24.8 | of the mountains official height and it comes in at a whopping 29,000 31.7 feet. |
| 0:34.8 | Mount Everest is higher than both countries' previous measurements. |
| 0:39.3 | As India correspondent Lauren Ferris-Baltic explained in the episode, the periodic measurement |
| 0:44.7 | of the mountains a big deal and involves a lot of very, very cool science. |
| 0:49.7 | Okay, enjoy the show. |
| 0:51.4 | You're listening to Shortwave from NPR. |
| 0:57.9 | Maddie Sifai here with Lauren Ferrier, first time on the show. |
| 1:01.9 | Lauren, welcome. |
| 1:02.9 | Hey, thanks for having me. |
| 1:04.5 | Absolutely. |
| 1:05.5 | Okay, so you cover South Asia for NPR. |
| 1:09.0 | What do you have for us? |
| 1:10.7 | So Maddie, today I have for you a number. |
| 1:13.4 | The number itself, 29,029, it just becomes something that you, I guess, fixate on. |
| 1:21.3 | It becomes just this special number in your mind and like you hear it and you just know |
| 1:27.5 | immediately what it means. |
| 1:29.0 | So Maddie, before I tell you who this person is, I want to ask you, you're a climber. |
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