India to re-measure height of Mount Everest
The Survey of India will "re-measure" the height of Mount Everest as scientists have expressed doubts over this following the 2015 Nepal earthquake, Surveyor General Swarna Subba Rao has announced. Rao added, "there is a doubt in the scientific community that it is shrinking. That is one of the reasons. Second reason is, it helps in scientific studies, plate movements."