A river is pushing up Mount Everest’s peak

Mount Everest is about 15 to 50 metres taller than it would otherwise be because of uplift caused by a nearby eroding river gorge, and continues to grow because of it, finds a new study by PhD student Adam Smith and Dr Matthew Fox (UCL Earth Sciences).

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