Why Mount Everest's height keeps changing

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  • Опубликовано: 15 мар 2021
  • The world's tallest mountain just got a little taller - here's why.
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    In December of 2020, China and Nepal made a joint announcement about a new measurement for Mount Everest: 8,849 meters. This is just the latest of several different surveys of Everest since the first measurement was taken in 1855. The reasons why the height has fluctuated have to do with surveying methodology, challenges in determining sea level, and the people who have historically been able to measure Everest.
    We mention this NOAA post in the end tag of the video, which addresses another way to measure the height of mountains: oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/h...
    NOAA has more information about the geoid here: oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/g...
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  • @IamAeroDynamic
    @IamAeroDynamic 3 года назад +5694

    I knew Everest's height just by googling it, all these people are wasting their time smh

    • @akshitthakur6833
      @akshitthakur6833 3 года назад +292

      Smort

    • @29lookingood
      @29lookingood 3 года назад +49

      🤣🤣🤣

    • @licoriceluv906
      @licoriceluv906 3 года назад +278

      Wish we all could be as smart as you jonathan

    • @drip4304
      @drip4304 3 года назад +267

      *Sometimes my genius, Is almost frightening*

    • @shubhashishsarkar4686
      @shubhashishsarkar4686 3 года назад +59

      Well u found the info so easily because all these people have wasted so much time discovering it...😁

  • @ry-blo_utd
    @ry-blo_utd 3 года назад +2748

    I wanna change Mt. Everest's height again..... Ima put a rock up there.

    • @elbaecc
      @elbaecc 3 года назад +45

      up there *
      UP not IN

    • @raditiyavalendeto4112
      @raditiyavalendeto4112 3 года назад +7

      @@MrNicoJac autocorrect trash

    • @latl089er
      @latl089er 3 года назад +6

      @@MrNicoJac imagine using autocorrect

    • @Ellie_deMayo
      @Ellie_deMayo 3 года назад +9

      @@elbaecc
      Y’all gon’ make me lose my mind.

    • @oksowhat
      @oksowhat 3 года назад +20

      well, if you manage to take 1m long rock there them, congratulations you will be the first one to do so

  • @impatrickt
    @impatrickt 3 года назад +307

    This is super inspiring. I can barely climb out of bed.

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 3 года назад +9

      Ha-ha IKR?! I'm still trying to measure the height of my bed in case I fall off of it. xD

    • @nonexistantman5797
      @nonexistantman5797 3 года назад +3

      @@BillAnt so far I’ve come to a conclusion that my bed is a terrifying.. 0.3 meters.

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 3 года назад +2

      @@nonexistantman5797 < Lucky you're not on the top of a bunk bed. ;D

    • @rieldebonk1044
      @rieldebonk1044 3 года назад

      That has nothing to do with climbing a mountain but okay.

    • @nonexistantman5797
      @nonexistantman5797 3 года назад +1

      @@rieldebonk1044 ew than u probably sleep on the floor
      Climbing out of a bed is like climbing down Olympus mons

  • @ChaseCares
    @ChaseCares 3 года назад +215

    From a land surveyor in the US, what a great job the Nepalese people did! And despite being thousands of miles away I can certainly appreciate the amount of effort and time that went into creating this important calculation, great job!

  • @BatCaveOz
    @BatCaveOz 3 года назад +1670

    My life peaked when I finally climbed Mt. Everest.
    Since then it has been all downhill.

    • @jackwu7028
      @jackwu7028 3 года назад +80

      I mean, you can take a plane.

    • @Chris_at_Home
      @Chris_at_Home 3 года назад +15

      I worked with a guy years ago that guided on all the big mountains including Everest. . He did tower work as his other job.

    • @_phantomII_
      @_phantomII_ 3 года назад +8

      So how was climbing it?

    • @BatCaveOz
      @BatCaveOz 3 года назад +64

      @@_phantomII_ - I would describe it as "uplifting".

    • @hsgame4088
      @hsgame4088 3 года назад +6

      @@BatCaveOz Dont worry man,Ups and lows come all the time,its the journey that matters.

  • @reynanhenry612
    @reynanhenry612 3 года назад +1221

    Earth : has earthquake
    Humans : time to meassure the hight of mount everest

    • @erutanevoli
      @erutanevoli 3 года назад +30

      C'mon man, these sort of jokes were funny for the first 300 times but now it's getting old.

    • @princesscaliduh
      @princesscaliduh 3 года назад +14

      @@erutanevoli nah I thought it was funny , man

    • @Davidmunozlv
      @Davidmunozlv 3 года назад

      Hahahahahaha

  • @KoenvMeijel
    @KoenvMeijel 3 года назад +58

    I used to think that Everest was a cool archaic word for furthest or highest (like "forever" + est) but no it's just some British bloke

  • @wixostrix
    @wixostrix 3 года назад +281

    The best part of this really is the Nepalese people getting to measure their own mountain.

    • @freakfreaky7929
      @freakfreaky7929 3 года назад +7

      Right, but the mountain is also owned by the Chinese.

    • @jackson1342
      @jackson1342 Год назад

      ​@@freakfreaky7929 no its nepal not china😢😢

  • @tkgsg
    @tkgsg 3 года назад +1453

    Everyone gangsta till topographical prominence enters the chat

    • @counterfit5
      @counterfit5 3 года назад +9

      The parent peak of Mont Blanc is Everest

    • @sushantbhandari7948
      @sushantbhandari7948 3 года назад +3

      @@counterfit5 How? I've not been able to grasp this concept of prominence. What does it mean actually?

    • @stelter1555
      @stelter1555 3 года назад

      @@counterfit5 aa it

    • @snuckle2421
      @snuckle2421 3 года назад

      k

    • @alexlin8328
      @alexlin8328 3 года назад +1

      this isn’t really a prominence problem

  • @terramater
    @terramater 3 года назад +1600

    Breathtaking that Khim Lal Gautam stood on the world’s highest point for nearly two hours to capture the best available satellite data.
    Aside from the new measurement, it's great to see that Nepal and China together announced that they had determined the exact height of the world’s tallest mountain. Looks like both, Mt. Everest and the China-Nepal relationship, have reached a new height.

    • @oksowhat
      @oksowhat 3 года назад +34

      no, they just measured the height, their relation will not be better until India likes it

    • @simulify8726
      @simulify8726 3 года назад +76

      Nepals increasing diplocmacy towards China is an alarming bell. Otherwise Nepal will become the next Tibet

    • @JAmes-BoNDOO7
      @JAmes-BoNDOO7 3 года назад +49

      Tibet was taken over by China. Same thing can happen with Nepal

    • @saket174
      @saket174 3 года назад +11

      & one day China will attack Nepal 😔

    • @superpowerdragon
      @superpowerdragon 3 года назад +89

      @@simulify8726 nah, China never stole any territory from Nepal, India however still illegally occupying parts of Nepal

  • @dominiquarz3868
    @dominiquarz3868 3 года назад +43

    Nepal suffers a devastating earthquake in 2015, probably killing lots of people...
    Nepal surveyors - "MEASURE THE HEIGHT OF THE MOUNTAIN NOW! QUICK!!!"

    • @eyan1114
      @eyan1114 3 года назад +6

      Nepal has been growing rapidly in economy even aftr the earthquakes n indian blockade... our economy is going well
      Only political instability suks

    • @skeletonwithacleaver9609
      @skeletonwithacleaver9609 3 года назад +1

      @@eyan1114 I hope life is going well then. Cheers from the the USA. 💚

    • @nanilama7016
      @nanilama7016 3 года назад +2

      Eyan 11 what after earthquake? U remember when India economically blocakde Nepal for more than 6 months n loss of billions trade... we all know that all the problems are because of our two neighbouring countries government but *No international news media or United Nation spoke when it came to Nepal* ...
      Truth but watevr only we know how we live in our diversed country n respect every others countries.. we should keep developing the south asia's oldest unified n independent country ; my Nepal
      Ahem

  • @davidguthary8147
    @davidguthary8147 3 года назад +38

    Fun fact: the initial measurement of Everest's height came out to exactly 29,000 ft. When it was published, they deliberately changed it to 29,002 ft to avoid accusations of rounding or low precision.

  • @ajinkyagaikwad26
    @ajinkyagaikwad26 3 года назад +351

    While you were watching the video, Mount Everest grew by 0.002 meters
    Respect for Sherpas

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 3 года назад +10

      Independence for Tibet and Nepal from China.

    • @montyi8
      @montyi8 3 года назад +6

      @@angelgjr1999 lol Nepal is free but it should be added to India

    • @angelgjr1999
      @angelgjr1999 3 года назад

      @@montyi8 Why?

    • @montyi8
      @montyi8 3 года назад +1

      @@angelgjr1999 China is indirectly taking control of Nepal by money. Read about it.

    • @619ry7
      @619ry7 3 года назад +1

      @@montyi8 no that is India

  • @Stormer4422
    @Stormer4422 3 года назад +430

    George Everest’s name is pronounced Eev-rest. In fact he didn’t want Everest named after him because people would mispronounce it.

    • @Ami-gu5zi
      @Ami-gu5zi 3 года назад +53

      So sad,i still gonna call it everest though,sorry george

    • @AdwinLauYuTan
      @AdwinLauYuTan 3 года назад +22

      @@Ami-gu5zi Yeah. It's like the name Washington. Or Yorkshire. Tongues shift. That is the downside of having things named after you.

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 3 года назад +4

      @@dizzy2020 Seeing as QI themselves once did a whole bit on the halflife of facts, I wouldn't say they (or Stephen personally) are never wrong... They just have the sense of humour to admit it and joke about it when they are wrong.

    • @AdwinLauYuTan
      @AdwinLauYuTan 3 года назад +3

      @@dizzy2020 Do you pronounce "pronunciation" as "pronounciation"? If so, change your pronunciation, guy.

    • @debabrataroy3081
      @debabrataroy3081 3 года назад +24

      He didn't want Everest named after him because he did nothing to discover its height. In fact he never even saw the mountain in his life. It was named after him simply because he was the colonial officer incharge.

  • @Aurora-ml9cp
    @Aurora-ml9cp 3 года назад +113

    I'm always amazed with people who reached the top of Everest 🏔

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 3 года назад +5

      A waste of time, just take Uber. xD

    • @Aurora-ml9cp
      @Aurora-ml9cp 3 года назад +2

      @@BillAnt huft! you don't like adventure :p

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 3 года назад +3

      @@Aurora-ml9cp < Well, it just humor, nothing serious. ;D

    • @Huggsmd
      @Huggsmd 3 года назад +3

      Be amazed at the sherpas, not the regular people. Without sherpas 99% of people who have summited everest would not have been able too.

    • @u_gona_get_addictive
      @u_gona_get_addictive Год назад

      @@BillAnt so why are u here than

  • @Vox
    @Vox  3 года назад +17

    This video was adapted into an episode for Vox’s science podcast, Unexplainable. You can hear more of our reporting on Mount Everest and sea level, and learn about other contenders for the world’s tallest mountain there:
    open.spotify.com/episode/2nzmrOLgae5GmMgULFYXag?si=He88--XWR7GXregkkSjBJw&dl_branch=1

  • @randomstuff5562
    @randomstuff5562 3 года назад +256

    I think this video shows the fact that how complicated even small things are, and how great science is

    • @tubester4567
      @tubester4567 3 года назад +3

      Im just surprised Vox didnt find a way to blame Trump or western colonialism for this.

    • @prathamkhanal1956
      @prathamkhanal1956 3 года назад +3

      @@tubester4567 haha true. I'm Nepali, and I love the west, just to let you guys know YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT YOUR ANCESTOR DID SO NOTHING TO FEEL GUILT OF.
      Cheers!

  • @Daniel-ht4wr
    @Daniel-ht4wr 3 года назад +290

    George Everest actually pronounced his name EVE-erest, ironically

    • @mateosanchis5507
      @mateosanchis5507 3 года назад +21

      And he didn't want his name to be used.

    • @PKNproductions
      @PKNproductions 3 года назад +39

      This kinda makes me more okay with that fact that we use his name, because now it has taken a life of its own.
      Especially since the change in pronunciation matches its new 'meaning' - it is the highest place EVER, and to climb to top is like climbing forever: Everest.

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 3 года назад +13

      @@PKNproductions That's what makes the name of earth's second-highest mountain so great as well. K2 doesn't actually have a proper name, because the letter-number combination was just a way a survey at the time (not sure if it was the same one talked about in the video) categorised mountains. It is so remote that it is unknown whether anybody had ever actually seen the mountain before the surveyors did, and climbing K2 is so much deadlier than climbing Everest that it is rather fitting that it's simply known as K2, rather than being given a name that humanises it.

    • @hamsterville
      @hamsterville 3 года назад +3

      @@rjfaber1991 uh K2 has different names and local names as well. Godwin Austen and Chogori.

    • @rjfaber1991
      @rjfaber1991 3 года назад +3

      @@hamsterville All of those were coined much later though, and the mountain continues to be known officially as K2.

  • @maximuseuropa1355
    @maximuseuropa1355 3 года назад +53

    Everyone who reaches the summit is the temporary new world record holder of highest person on land.

    • @luisgabrielramos7923
      @luisgabrielramos7923 3 года назад

      you got a point, sir

    • @jacko____428
      @jacko____428 3 года назад +1

      They should have Guinness world record official stationed there to give awards out every time someone goes there

    • @maximuseuropa1355
      @maximuseuropa1355 3 года назад

      @@jacko____428 Hahaha 🤣

    • @mau2759
      @mau2759 3 года назад

      Deep 😔🤚

    • @xenioralad3159
      @xenioralad3159 3 года назад

      @@jacko____428 logically speaking this would be costly

  • @ivantangliben5630
    @ivantangliben5630 3 года назад +23

    This make me appreciate trigonometry right now compared a decade ago.

  • @frilink
    @frilink 3 года назад +406

    I feel happy when the Nepalese feels proud they are the one measuring the Everest.......

    • @Tomoya778
      @Tomoya778 3 года назад +16

      Yeah, too bad china had to be there too

    • @Ami-gu5zi
      @Ami-gu5zi 3 года назад +11

      @@Tomoya778 i mean china own mount everes too yk

    • @exosaranghaja7980
      @exosaranghaja7980 3 года назад +22

      @@Ami-gu5zi They don’t even have to own something they claim everything as theirs lol.

    • @Ami-gu5zi
      @Ami-gu5zi 3 года назад +34

      @@exosaranghaja7980 literally half of the mountain is in china,dont get political.

    • @iwastheonewhocrashedyourwi9500
      @iwastheonewhocrashedyourwi9500 3 года назад +17

      Well well well , I have a feeling something is going to happen in this reply section. Gotta grab my popcorn 🍿

  • @aashishbabu4196
    @aashishbabu4196 3 года назад +576

    Everyone is a gangster until Khim Lal Gautam reach the summit just to take a measurement 🤣

    • @matrixnepal4282
      @matrixnepal4282 3 года назад +5

      Haha

    • @rocaez2143
      @rocaez2143 3 года назад +1

      Our government waited 7.8 rs earthquake to let our own people measure it. I'm sure Chinese government gave all the equipments.

    • @eyan1114
      @eyan1114 3 года назад +4

      @@rocaez2143 wat the... both sides did their submits independently... its obvious that Nepal hav n had used their own equipment
      i guess u r here who dont know abt ur own nation Lol
      Pakhe jasto kura garxa

    • @rocaez2143
      @rocaez2143 3 года назад

      @@eyan1114 Ladies and gentlemen..... Meet the Katren of FDRN. U must know FDRN... Don't you smarty pants

    • @rocaez2143
      @rocaez2143 3 года назад

      @@eyan1114 And your so full of nationalism that your using word "Pakhe" which doesn't even exist in dictionary . Do you even know the definition , it's origin and context? I feel so sorry for people like you.

  • @demonetization6596
    @demonetization6596 3 года назад +242

    Plot twist: Global warming was caused by the first people who summit Mount Everest to ensure no one else gets a better Mount Everest height then them.

    • @abhinandanpatil8168
      @abhinandanpatil8168 3 года назад +6

      Lol you can go to some youtuber that swears and just comment hello there

    • @demonetization6596
      @demonetization6596 3 года назад +7

      @@abhinandanpatil8168 have been doing that to Jake Paul everyday

    • @abhinandanpatil8168
      @abhinandanpatil8168 3 года назад +2

      @@demonetization6596 yea man for you its just every day bro

    • @sodaspop
      @sodaspop 3 года назад

      Erosion wears it down, but the narrative will say height stays same, "Gore-bal warming" will raise sea levels, thus making it shorter

    • @demonetization6596
      @demonetization6596 3 года назад +1

      @@sodaspop what is it eroded by that makes it change by a few metres every few years? Wind couldn’t do that and I would say water but it would be frozen up there and snow is unlikely. And then it’s height increases again? It would probably be human error or change in sea level due to global warming

  • @cf453
    @cf453 3 года назад +9

    As a surveyor, my respect to all the people that have worked to measure Everest.
    Very solid video, even though I would have liked the means and methodology of conventional trigonometric surveying and leveling to be explained further.

  • @slayyyyjay
    @slayyyyjay 3 года назад +194

    this question is like asking why does the coastline keep changing

  • @kiel_3222
    @kiel_3222 3 года назад +272

    That one Italian measure sure is a cut above the rest haha

    • @baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam
      @baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaam 3 года назад +23

      It is only like ~1% higher than the lowest predicted height :P

    • @hehebwoai3056
      @hehebwoai3056 3 года назад +69

      Other nations used triangles, italy used pizza slices

    • @anuj656
      @anuj656 3 года назад +3

      @@hehebwoai3056 who are you? Who are you so wise in the ways of science?

  • @eostyrwinn5018
    @eostyrwinn5018 3 года назад +33

    Interesting fact about George Everest that I recently learned. He was against Mount Everest being named after him because his name was hard to pronounce for the locals.

    • @sanejugal
      @sanejugal 3 года назад +8

      Locals call it by it real or local names. Sagarmatha or chomolungma.

    • @eostyrwinn5018
      @eostyrwinn5018 3 года назад +2

      @@sanejugal Yeah because... duh. But At the time, the British didn't know the local name (well they thought there wasn't one) because they weren't allowed into Nepal.

  • @kayzeaza
    @kayzeaza 3 года назад +2

    I’m glad she mentioned other mountain measuring techniques at the end

  • @LashanR
    @LashanR 3 года назад +395

    Considering George Everest didn't even want the mountain named after him, maybe it's time they renamed it to a local name like Sagarmāthā

    • @KanishkaWijesekara
      @KanishkaWijesekara 3 года назад +25

      Sagar - Ocean
      Matha - mother
      Common sanskrit elements in our neighborhood.

    • @sagarbhandari4915
      @sagarbhandari4915 3 года назад +74

      @@KanishkaWijesekara Sagar : Means Sky and Matha : Means Forehead (top of the head) Although Spelling is same as sea i. e Sagar =sea, it Pronunciation is that of sky.. सगरमाथा not सागरमाथा (सगर means sky)

    • @bhumiboladulyadejshakya3507
      @bhumiboladulyadejshakya3507 3 года назад +44

      @@KanishkaWijesekara No man, SAGAR means Sky and Matha: means on top of. This is a Nepalese translation. Stop bringing Sanskrit in.

    • @sagarbhandari4915
      @sagarbhandari4915 3 года назад +7

      @andrew ansyon Ok ..but निधार and माथा have similar meaning and I am pretty confident that माथा translate to forehead ..you can confirm it yourself ..

    • @adanactnomew7085
      @adanactnomew7085 3 года назад +11

      Everest sounds cooler

  • @buddharatnamanandhar3837
    @buddharatnamanandhar3837 3 года назад +227

    FYI: that sherpa is from Nepal not india !!

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      @justmiles8651 3 года назад +72

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    • @Manish_Rai
      @Manish_Rai 3 года назад +48

      @Oblivious me

    • @samundrakc2533
      @samundrakc2533 3 года назад +22

      he later accepted offer of Indian government and became indian

    • @eyan1114
      @eyan1114 3 года назад +58

      @@samundrakc2533 but it doesn't make any sense to say "He is FROM" india
      Edmund hillary is Nepali n also frm Nepal bcz he also got Honourable Nepalese citizenship 😅

    • @samundrakc2533
      @samundrakc2533 3 года назад +17

      @@eyan1114 Nepal doesn't allow dual citizenship so he is Indian.

  • @surendradahal4050
    @surendradahal4050 3 года назад +24

    WATCHING VOX FOR 3 YEARS STRAIGHT. IT FEELS GOOD WHEN YOU SEE YOUR NATION'S VIDEO. THANK YOU VOX. ALWAYS LOVED YOUR CONTENTS . ;-)
    edit: I forgot to mention that I am from Nepal.

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  • @AndrewVanner
    @AndrewVanner 3 года назад +42

    Surprised this video doesn't mention the intentional inaccuracy of the first measurement. When the British Officer Andrew Scott Waugh first measured and calculated the height of Mt. Everest, his result was exactly 29,000 feet. Not wanting people to think he made a rounding error, he added two feet to get the declared result of 29,002 feet.
    It also means Waugh can be said to be the first person to ever put his two feet on Mt. Everest ;)

  • @NoneOfTheAbove123
    @NoneOfTheAbove123 3 года назад +67

    Earth: Laughs in tectonic plates...

    • @ishaansharma4325
      @ishaansharma4325 3 года назад +2

      I used to be a rock climber like you, then I took a rock in the knee

  • @suddhojitgon5929
    @suddhojitgon5929 3 года назад

    Fabulous video. Thanks a lot.

  • @kjeksomanen
    @kjeksomanen 3 года назад

    Cool extra bits of info in the outro, loving it! :D

  • @golazomedia531
    @golazomedia531 3 года назад +66

    Editor: sorry guys wrong thumbnail.

  • @bikashgurung8497
    @bikashgurung8497 3 года назад +46

    Whenever I go back home(ancestral) for break I wake up with the view of two tallest mountain in the world Mt. Kanchenjunga and Mt. Everest. It is the best feeling ever. I'm really proud of my heritage.

    • @francogiobbimontesanti3826
      @francogiobbimontesanti3826 3 года назад +3

      Isn’t K2 the second highest mountain on earth

    • @zukedai6643
      @zukedai6643 3 года назад +22

      @@francogiobbimontesanti3826 he meant to say two of the tallest.
      Out of top 10, I think 8 are in Nepal

    • @matthewjames206
      @matthewjames206 3 года назад +2

      That's awesome. I hope to hike to EBC someday.

    • @shumanrai804
      @shumanrai804 3 года назад +1

      She saying tenzing is Indian too.....
      What is opinion bro?

    • @xbsjcjhdjxjdhdhdg1458
      @xbsjcjhdjxjdhdhdg1458 3 года назад +2

      @@shumanrai804 bro he is Nepali later went India bro Google gara his nationalities is Nepali abba sakii gayo ni tesle j sukai vanos

  • @jamesquaine6264
    @jamesquaine6264 3 года назад +3

    Really appreciate your use of the metric system 👍

  • @jackyoung7097
    @jackyoung7097 3 года назад

    Really interesting thanks for making the video

  • @upite4202
    @upite4202 3 года назад +8

    03:26 the actual measurement in 1855 came out to be exactly 29,000 feet and people at survey of India thought people wouldnt believe such reading as precise hence Waugh (surveyor general) arbitarily added 2 feet and final result was 20,002. Hence its said that Waugh is the first person to put two feet on everest.

  • @ridhobaihaqi144
    @ridhobaihaqi144 3 года назад +56

    The earth crust move every year, that also caused the height rising up

    • @KLK01
      @KLK01 3 года назад +3

      Plate tectonics

    • @scoops2
      @scoops2 3 года назад +9

      They mention that in the video

  • @WorldOfTinite
    @WorldOfTinite 3 года назад

    Great video, Vox! Explanation was clear and fascinating

  • @nishisanghvi8903
    @nishisanghvi8903 3 года назад +1

    Love how you concluded it💯

  • @shb8651
    @shb8651 3 года назад +13

    2:24 that angle in the middle is not 90º, you shouldn't make the symbol of a right angle there.

    • @shb8651
      @shb8651 3 года назад +2

      @@DrDeuteron if you’re correct, AB should not be depicted as one straight line segment.
      But AB is depicted as a straight line. Therefore, you’re wrong.

    • @shb8651
      @shb8651 3 года назад +1

      @@DrDeuteron ah okay. Also gonna get my brass rat next year! :)
      Are you an alum?

  • @Bhatakti_Hawas
    @Bhatakti_Hawas 3 года назад +27

    I think Everest should be renamed to Sagarmatha or Chomolungma
    Like how Mt. McKinley was renamed to Denali. Its the highest mountain in North America

    • @bleuapricot
      @bleuapricot 3 года назад

      whats chomolunga? i agree with the former

    • @CJonesApple
      @CJonesApple 3 года назад

      It's just Denali. Not Mt. Denali.

    • @simulify8726
      @simulify8726 3 года назад +1

      Sikdar finded the height, the name should be Mt.Sikdar

    • @Bhatakti_Hawas
      @Bhatakti_Hawas 3 года назад +2

      @@bleuapricot Sagarmatha is the Nepali name. Chomolungma is the Tibetan name

    • @Bhatakti_Hawas
      @Bhatakti_Hawas 3 года назад +5

      @@simulify8726 No. It shouldn't be named after anyone. It should be called what it was called by locals for centuries

  • @alexandra.adventures
    @alexandra.adventures 3 года назад

    Super fascinating, thank you 🙏🏻🤍

  • @strangerthings2512
    @strangerthings2512 3 года назад +1

    Honestly, you guys deserves way more subscribers

  • @dekuvisuals9847
    @dekuvisuals9847 3 года назад +25

    I climbed Everest too... On Google maps.

  • @Sbjung58
    @Sbjung58 3 года назад +124

    Non-living things don't grow in size!!
    Mt.Everest : we don't do that here.

    • @matrixnepal4282
      @matrixnepal4282 3 года назад

      🤣🤣

    • @matrixnepal4282
      @matrixnepal4282 3 года назад +2

      @Ramen Lover bro u don't get it. Actually, the hight of everest is actually increasing every year by few centimetres. If u don't believe me then research properly.

    • @matrixnepal4282
      @matrixnepal4282 3 года назад +1

      @Ramen Lover official hight in meter is 8848.86 meter🥰

    • @thenjk9781
      @thenjk9781 3 года назад

      😂😁

    • @avivishwakarma8028
      @avivishwakarma8028 3 года назад

      Its Himalaya bro...

  • @chantelmatshwe6260
    @chantelmatshwe6260 3 года назад

    What an informative channel!!!

  • @alypixar4690
    @alypixar4690 3 года назад

    Great video

  • @malthenielsen1370
    @malthenielsen1370 3 года назад +35

    TLDR: sea levels are volatile, and the tectonic plates of india and asia are still colliding, pushing mountains upwards.

  • @anubhavpal5782
    @anubhavpal5782 3 года назад +10

    So everytime there's a massive earthquake, they are gonna head out there to get the new height ?

  • @ikasilyo
    @ikasilyo 3 года назад

    Amazing video 😉
    keep it up

  • @MedicalKnowledge0001
    @MedicalKnowledge0001 3 года назад +15

    Jay sagarmatha!! hi to everyone from land of Mt. Everest.

  • @Suraj-zw3it
    @Suraj-zw3it 3 года назад +5

    Love from Nepal! :)

  • @JustWojtek
    @JustWojtek 3 года назад +2

    On top of being a informative video, that's actually a quite beautiful story.

  • @SMX815
    @SMX815 3 года назад

    Good video 😊👍

  • @snapcracklepop5921
    @snapcracklepop5921 3 года назад +8

    Apparently George Everest pronounced him own name differently than we all do now. Eve (as in Christmas eve) rest, Eve~rest and not EVerest.

  • @ordaineddoodle4970
    @ordaineddoodle4970 3 года назад +7

    Nepal: “Come check out our rising crust!”

  • @ccchhhrrriiisss100
    @ccchhhrrriiisss100 3 года назад +2

    Fantastic video! I climbed Half Dome in Yosemite (summitting at the cables). I'm in relatively good shape; yet, it was a fairly difficult climb. The interesting thing is that Half Dome isn't quite 9,000 feet. I can only imagine just how difficult Everest would be. I plan on climbing Mt. Whitney this year. Even then, the height is roughly half that of Mt. Everest.

  • @deadasian23
    @deadasian23 3 года назад +1

    Can you make a follow-up video about the mountains you mentioned at the end of the video?

  • @minho8039
    @minho8039 3 года назад +61

    Me 10 minutes ago: I didnt know that Mount Everest height keeps changing
    Me after vox uploads: I need to know why Mount Everest height keeps changing

  • @AabgeenAli
    @AabgeenAli 3 года назад +2

    I had an exam today and this was one of the questions, lol wish this had been uploaded earlier

    • @619ry7
      @619ry7 3 года назад

      Really lol

  • @TNOBasedBatov
    @TNOBasedBatov 3 года назад +1

    vox- the channel which answers questions we never asked for but are super cool

  • @vascoamaralgrilo
    @vascoamaralgrilo 3 года назад

    Thanks!

  • @lisha4152
    @lisha4152 3 года назад +21

    Proud to be a nepali 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵 😊
    Love from nepal🙂
    Aru koi xa vane namaste hai ta😂

    • @cadiprajkarki
      @cadiprajkarki 3 года назад +1

      Mero channel ma subscribe gara hai sathi.
      Educational and productivity related content ho. 🇳🇵🇳🇵🇳🇵

    • @khemshrestha1643
      @khemshrestha1643 3 года назад +2

      Namaste 🙏

    • @dan5974
      @dan5974 3 года назад

      Proud of a thing you never made? We indians are proud of things we made 🤣

    • @iwastheonewhocrashedyourwi9500
      @iwastheonewhocrashedyourwi9500 3 года назад +11

      @@dan5974 gosh stop. We are Indians and they are Nepalis , they have the mountain thats it. Why the heck you are making a mess then saying that "Indians made it" ? Nepal , Bhutan , Pakistan and Bangladesh are on Indian Subcontinent. We never made it , all the countries on this subcontinent did. Just because our subcontinent is named India doesn't mean other countries don't have any part in making of anything in this subcontinent. I swear I hate when people from my own country are always "taunting" their own neighbouring countries.

    • @dan5974
      @dan5974 3 года назад

      @hai bhagwaan! no hatred bro, we are just the best, all other countries should fear us 😁

  • @kabeersanan5147
    @kabeersanan5147 3 года назад +6

    I hope that no one climbs Mount Everest now because it is becoming a dumping ground rather than scenic view. Mt. Everest should be a reserved natural habitat rather than a place to gain fame and make records.

    • @eyan1114
      @eyan1114 3 года назад +5

      Thanks for mentionin it.. but don't worry Nepal army n Sherpas are on the way to clean up those garbages..
      They are beautiful... visitNepal2077

    • @elbaecc
      @elbaecc 3 года назад

      True.

    • @neutralboi1984
      @neutralboi1984 3 года назад

      @@eyan1114 the year is ending

  • @haneen6527
    @haneen6527 3 года назад +1

    Thank you

  • @mustbeaweful2504
    @mustbeaweful2504 3 года назад

    You really taught me something I knew nothing about. Thanks 🙂
    (Absolutely nuts that one team spent two hours at the top of Everest to take measurements.)

  • @kmseyam7897
    @kmseyam7897 3 года назад +40

    An important point wasn't mentioned in the video.. The surveyer who first measured the height of Mount Everest wasn't an English like many people think.. "Radhanath Sikdar"- A mathematician and surveyor from Bengal was first to measure the height of Everest, then it was named in honour of the former surveyor general of India..

    • @batmanishere1998
      @batmanishere1998 3 года назад +3

      Awesome fact ...thank u for this priceless information sir

    • @diamondgajurel9633
      @diamondgajurel9633 3 года назад +8

      Ahh ahhh muji khok khok ajai khok sala dhoti

    • @sancortexstk5252
      @sancortexstk5252 3 года назад +3

      Oh I see, that's why Zee news wants to call it Mount Sikdar, lol! Sagarmatha (Nepali name of Everest) was given later, Qomolangma is it's local name according to Sherpas who live on the foot hill of this mountain. I think everyone should call it Qomolangma.

    • @Bhatakti_Hawas
      @Bhatakti_Hawas 3 года назад

      Exactly

    • @batmanishere1998
      @batmanishere1998 3 года назад

      @hai bhagwaan! what did he mean exactly.

  • @bhumiboladulyadejshakya3507
    @bhumiboladulyadejshakya3507 3 года назад +32

    Kudos to this documentary, they used Nepalese people for interviews rather than Chinese.

    • @avivishwakarma8028
      @avivishwakarma8028 3 года назад

      Ya ..

    • @Achill101
      @Achill101 3 года назад

      I liked that they interviewed Nepalese people, but I would have liked to hear a Chinese surveyor, too.

    • @MrSpiritmonger
      @MrSpiritmonger 2 года назад

      I've never seen a Western video on Everest that interviewed Chinese. Can you find one on RUclips?

  • @peacechickification
    @peacechickification 3 года назад

    Yo I liked this video before those ending facts but those two cool ‘taller’ mountain facts I had no choice but to hit the like button.

  • @alparslankorkmaz2964
    @alparslankorkmaz2964 3 года назад

    Nice video.

  • @missgurung1811
    @missgurung1811 3 года назад +4

    In Nepal, we call Mount Everest as Sagarmatha. Sagar means sky and matha means forehead which means “forehead of the sky”

  • @justmiles8651
    @justmiles8651 3 года назад +4

    Any video involving nepal
    Nepali people : Insert *Heaven* *Gautam Buddha* *Mount Everest*

  • @Mykasan
    @Mykasan 3 года назад

    Please do another video about mountains !

  • @Riquilina
    @Riquilina 3 года назад

    This is soooo cool!!

  • @NaveenJolster
    @NaveenJolster 3 года назад +4

    The Nepalese version of the name Everest is SAGAR-MATHA meaning SEA MOTHER. Really interesting isn't it? The true meaning is Everest is full of sea fossils and shells which says it was once a sea and transformed into a mountain range. coz of all the fossils and shells local people might have named it SAGAR-MATHA

    • @rgohatre
      @rgohatre 3 года назад +4

      Before mount everest was a thing there was tethys sea between India and asia. When India collided with asia, mt Everest was formed and sea parted. I guess the name must be given by sanskrit scholars before the western world ruined our culture.

    • @randomhuman7214
      @randomhuman7214 3 года назад +2

      U r wrong..as a nepali..we say sagar not saagar..sagar means sky in nepali nd matha means forhead..so it means forhead touching the sky

    • @randomhuman7214
      @randomhuman7214 3 года назад

      @@rgohatre idk why everything happened to begin with india in indians mind..

    • @rgohatre
      @rgohatre 3 года назад

      @@randomhuman7214 because the entire culture of indian subcontinent used to be one till we were divided by arbitrary boundaries made by foreigners

    • @randomhuman7214
      @randomhuman7214 3 года назад

      @@rgohatre nah..nepali culture is different..we r mostly hilly people..so we have different things than plain area people

  • @florisk.ios.6416
    @florisk.ios.6416 3 года назад +31

    Because the indian tectonic plate still wants to smash

    • @gamehacker2801
      @gamehacker2801 3 года назад

      Actually Indian plate is moving away from the Eurasian plate.

    • @rajarshiroy6300
      @rajarshiroy6300 3 года назад +5

      @@gamehacker2801 if its so, the Himalayas wouldn't have been there kn the first place. The Indian plate is STILL buckling up the Eurasian plate.

    • @florisk.ios.6416
      @florisk.ios.6416 3 года назад +1

      @@gamehacker2801 that’s just a complete lie lol

    • @saket174
      @saket174 3 года назад

      @@gamehacker2801 no... There used to have a sea named tethys sea between the eurasian and the indian plate

    • @niweshlekhak9646
      @niweshlekhak9646 3 года назад

      @@florisk.ios.6416 dude the earthquake in 2015 validated that even more than it was before.

  • @bansipatel9083
    @bansipatel9083 3 года назад

    Vox never disappoint in content.

  • @jirayukuhakan824
    @jirayukuhakan824 3 года назад

    This video is so cool, I really like this channel and I got a lot of knowledge from this media. I enjoy it a lot.!

  • @9sven6
    @9sven6 3 года назад +5

    That example triangle had one of the most skew "right" angles I have every seen.

    • @sarahdangelo3168
      @sarahdangelo3168 3 года назад +2

      I think it was supposed to be 3d, like we're looking at it from an angle

    • @9sven6
      @9sven6 3 года назад +1

      @@sarahdangelo3168 Looking at 2:24, I doubt that was the intention

  • @heyamey5
    @heyamey5 3 года назад +25

    2:23
    That right angle give me chills

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 3 года назад

      It's the nightmare of high school trigonometry classes. Now try to work the angles out on top of the oxygen deprived peak of Everest. xD

    • @LadderVictims
      @LadderVictims 3 года назад +1

      @@BillAnt that's not what meant! That symbol in the middle referred as right angle or 90° but the picture is spooky..

    • @BillAnt
      @BillAnt 3 года назад +1

      @@LadderVictims < I know, I was just kidding. ;)

    • @LadderVictims
      @LadderVictims 3 года назад +1

      @@BillAnt Well as a Student pointing out those things makes us happy so nvm

  • @finnmusicstuff
    @finnmusicstuff 3 года назад +2

    I haven't even started watching and I know this is going to be good.

  • @Tejas.Lipare
    @Tejas.Lipare 3 года назад

    Great video! 🙌🏻
    Just a small request-
    If you could please render these videos in 60fps! That would be mesmerizing 😌

  • @gurrrn1102
    @gurrrn1102 3 года назад +5

    Nepal has been independent during and since tenzings lifetime.

  • @XnonXte
    @XnonXte 3 года назад +16

    At least it's not changing as my mind do in Important thing

  • @samythel
    @samythel Год назад

    So interesting!

  • @kulik03
    @kulik03 3 года назад

    This was way more interesting than I thought it would!

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    @iamharshraj10 3 года назад +27

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  • @princetandukar9290
    @princetandukar9290 3 года назад +119

    All outdoor brands are gansta until you need to climb The Everest, you only wear The North Face!

    • @steven7650
      @steven7650 3 года назад +5

      TNF is city wear junk. They make special runs of equipment for actual mountaineering.

    • @oswindrahermanu9700
      @oswindrahermanu9700 3 года назад +1

      BRUHH, the majority of them uses scarpa/la sportiva shoes, petzl/BD gear (for the technical ascent-abseil part), MH/marmot/sea to summit sleeping bags and lots of other brand to cover the support part of the expedition (solar&batteries, communication means, cooking sets)

    • @steven7650
      @steven7650 3 года назад +1

      @@oswindrahermanu9700 Given I own most of that stuff, I'm well aware.

    • @oswindrahermanu9700
      @oswindrahermanu9700 3 года назад

      @@steven7650 i was replying the main comment sir, the one that @prince tandukar said. Sorry if i offend you in any way; i was trying to debate the main comment.

    • @steven7650
      @steven7650 3 года назад

      @@oswindrahermanu9700 oops, no worries.

  • @artiliam8104
    @artiliam8104 3 года назад +1

    how do you make such nice info graphics and is there a way to do it simply ?

  • @johnshields6852
    @johnshields6852 2 года назад

    The geoid graphic looks amazing

  • @DrMeetPatel
    @DrMeetPatel 3 года назад +4

    8848.86 😱😱😱
    That .86 has some serious confidence.

  • @aaronbanse2744
    @aaronbanse2744 3 года назад +7

    Summary: it's from all the bodies piling up

  • @kauanbatista492
    @kauanbatista492 3 года назад

    What a beautiful video.

  • @iorekbyrnison1370
    @iorekbyrnison1370 3 года назад

    thanks Vox for using metric system !

  • @abhishekkulkarni2918
    @abhishekkulkarni2918 3 года назад +33

    Meanwhile Engineer be like :- Why worry.....Just take the average of all readings

    • @elbaecc
      @elbaecc 3 года назад +2

      Thats...not....how....engineering...works...
      Maybe you mean statistician or mathematician. Then it makes sense.

    • @youmemeyou
      @youmemeyou 3 года назад

      Ok

    • @abhishekkulkarni2918
      @abhishekkulkarni2918 3 года назад

      @@elbaecc engineers do that... Mathematians don't... They thrive for the accurate value..... Statistician on the other hand..... They also do it as they only need to find estimates

    • @elbaecc
      @elbaecc 3 года назад

      @@abhishekkulkarni2918 funny then, how i learned to average things in algebra class....

    • @abhishekkulkarni2918
      @abhishekkulkarni2918 3 года назад

      @@elbaecc you also learn how to diferentiate and integrate in algebra.... So that means engineers don't use calculus