Pandhraun Chuli

The book chronicles the 2019 Mount Everest Height Remeasurement Expedition initiated by the Government of Nepal. Following a massive earthquake in 2015, rumors and data patterns suggested that the height of Mount Everest might have shifted. Author Khimlal Gautam, a Chief Survey Officer and geospatial engineer, was appointed to lead a national team to settle the international dispute once and for all.
Unlike conventional mountaineering expeditions where reaching the top is the final goal, Gautam's narrative emphasizes that for his team, the real work began only after hitting the summit. Exhausted, operating in the death zone at temperatures dropping to minus 43 degrees Celsius, they spent over an hour deployed at the peak setting up advanced GPS and radar navigation equipment to transmit high-precision satellite data. This ultimate test of endurance directly resulted in calculating the definitive new height of Everest: 8,848.86 meters.