Measuring Mt.Everest in Nepal.

After taking six readings, the surveyors came to six different results. They decided to take an average, which came to 29,000 feet. However, Waugh considered this figure to be too neat for nature, so he and his team settled for a height of 29,002 feet. Waugh named this tallest peak after his predecessor, George Everest, but although the name has remained the same, its official height has not. Chinese and Indian surveyors took their own readings and came to a different measurement of 29,030 feet. These variations were put down to the shifting ice on the peak of the mountain.