Everest Mounted!

The Nepalis and the Chinese have finally agreed – after much consternation – that Mount Everest stands 8,848 meters tall. Forget Sir Edmund Hillary, even my 7th standard geography teacher, Paul Mathew, knew that one! In fact he even knew why Eskimos build igloos! The hapless classmate got a thrashing of course, when he replied saying: “Why not?”, to Mr Paul Mathew’s question about whether he knew!
Asides aside, the Americans – with their GPS systems and all – still maintain Mount Everest stands 8,850 meters tall.
Given the rate at which India is subducting under the Asian continental shelf, the Chinese and the Nepalis will be at it again in Kathmandu pretty soon!