The main changes in Mount Everest today is that the glaciers and snow is melting at a faster rate then people thought, also there are many more people on the mountain.
Today the height of Mount Everest is calculated using GPS and Satellite.
Standing at 29.028ft or 8.848m high Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world
In 1968 Mount Everest was probably only a quarter of an inch shorter than what it is today.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain because it is taller that any other mountain today.
Not much has changed on Mount Everest over the years apart from the amount of rubbish that is left on its slopes and there are a lot more people attempting to reach the summit.
The Sherpas from Nepal have had the most summits of Mount Everest.
Just like climbers today, Edmund Hillary wanted to climb Mount Everest for the adventure and challenge.
Today in 2013 it is more like 5,000 people have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
Mount Everest five years ago was the same height it is today give or take a few millimeters.
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.
Today climbers and sherpas can earn extra money by bring down any of their rubbish from the slopes of Mount Everest.
not much just like today