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Today they use satalites to measure the height of Mount Everest. When the mountain was first measured by Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India in 1847 they used a very large Theodolites weighing up tp 1100lbs and needing 12 men to carry them.

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What are facts about Everest?

Mount Everest is named after George Everest, the surveyor who measured its height in 1856 and declared it the highest mountain in the world. But the mountain already has a name. The local people call it chomolungma, which means 'Goddess mother of the world'.


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