Correction for the height of Mount Everest
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How long is 1,910 nautical miles?
It's about 400 times as tall as Mount Everest
The height of Mount Everest is about 4.7780 nautical miles.
(a.k.a. Mount Chomolungma, a.k.a. Sagarmatha, a.k.a. Mount Qomolangma, a.k.a. सगरमाथा, a.k.a. Chajamlungma, a.k.a. ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, a.k.a. 珠穆朗玛峰, a.k.a. Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) (Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and Tibet, China) (to summit, excluding snow depth)
Mount Everest rises 4.7780 nautical miles above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 0.000002159830 nautical miles and shifting it to the northeast by 0.000002429810 nautical miles each year.