The History of Mount Everest

The process of getting your reference point from sea level then retry angling around is actually exactly how mount Everest Got its measurement of meters above sea level. They found the sea level reference I believe in india and they measured triangles from the coast to Everest. That seems oh wow. Okay arduous Yeah, there's definitely some colonialism to this You know, I don't want to go too deep into it. There's a good fox video about sort of the the geopolitics of some of these measurements.

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