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Mount Everest | Higher than the Himalayas Updated: Updated: China and Nepal reach a consensus on the peak’s height, signalling closer ties Share Article China and Nepal reach a consensus on the peak’s height, signalling closer ties When Nepal and China were discussing the fate of Mount Everest in their border negotiations in the early 1960s, then Prime Minister B.P. Koirala told Mao Zedong the peak lay fully in Nepal. “But you do not even have a name for it in your language, and you call it Mount Everest,” Mao told him (although Nepal did, calling the mountain Sagarmatha). Koirala replied, “You do not have a name for the peak either,” referring to the Tibetan name of Qomolongma, used in China. Mao retorted, “Tibet is China”. ....