China and Nepal finally agree on the height of Mount Everest...

China and Nepal have agreed after 150 years on the height of Mount Everest. They agree on a snow height of  8848m.

The mountain lies on the border of the two countries and they have disagreed  for years over the exact height of the great mountain. It is now 4 metres higher than previously claimed by China.

The agreement was settled at a meeting in the legendary capital of Kathmandu during the last week.

Thousands of mountaineers have scaled the mighty peak since New Zealander, Sir Ed Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay scaled it in 1953. But its height has been disputed since the first measurement was made in 1856.

Sir Edmund Hillary died in 2008 at th ripe old age of 88 years. He wanted  his ashes scattered off Auckland, New Zealand, and on Mount Everest. It had been arranged that one of  Nepals's greatest climbers would take Hillary's ashes up the mountain, but a last minute decision by local authorites prevented this being completed.