KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepal needs money and technical expertise from international donors to measure Mount Everest afresh, officials said Wednesday, in a move to end a longstanding row with China about the height of the world's tallest mountain.
More than 4,000 climbers have scaled the mountain that straddles the Nepal-China border since it was first climbed by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa in May 1953.
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