Higher than before

The new height, which includes the snow height, is 86 centimetres more than the previous measurement.

It's 8848.86 metres—Nepal and China have finally reached an agreement over the exact height of Mt Everest, the world’s tallest mountain that straddles the Nepal-China border. On Tuesday, the two countries resolved the decades-long dispute over whether to take the snow height or the rock height of the world’s tallest mountain. The new height was announced jointly by Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali and his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi amid a virtual press conference. The latest measurement has added 86 centimetres to the height of the world’s tallest peak.