KATHMANDU, APR 09 -
The six-day Nepal-China boundary meeting concluded here on Friday with an agreement to recognise the snow and rock heights of Mt. Everest. However, Nepali officials pressed for marking the snow height of the 8,848-metre peak, with due priority in the upcoming protocol of border maps.

During the joint-secretary-level meeting, Nepali side pitched for marking the globally recognised snow height of the world’s tallest peak in the upcoming digitalised maps with due preference, said a senior official, who attended the meeting. “We have demanded that the snow height of Mt. Everest be marked with due priority, though it is yet to be decided how such height can be marked in the maps," said the official.

Snow and rock height issue surfaced in the meeting, as the Chinese State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the Everest’s height as 8,844.4 meters. The meeting examined all the map sheets to be attached to the protocol of the Third Joint Inspection.

The sheets have been prepared on the basis of the joint field inspection and survey based on the latest GPS technology. “The two sides formulated a plan for indoor work for 2010 and agreed in principle to complete joint inspection work within 2010," said a Foreign Ministry release. The joint inspection panel’s next session will be held in China.

Both sides will detect possible typological errors in the maps before they are approved by the Fourth Protocol of Nepal-China border maps. “As we lack technology, China will print 57 sheets of border maps," said the official. The Nepalese and Chinese talks teams were led by Mukti Nath Bhatta and Li Qingyuan respectively.


Posted on: 2010-04-10 08:26

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