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Dear Umesh,
Thanks for the magnificient pictures of the Mount
Everest. This peak has different names in Nepal & Tibet, but in our
childhood, we heard an alternative name Gourishankar Shringa. Now I
understand that is the name of another peak.
I think it was 1852 when one Indian mathematician,
Radhanath Sikdar, calculating manually with his hand-made 13-figure
trigonometric tables [no calculator/computer in those days!!! ], using
a theodolite from a distance of 150 miles from the peak #15, calculated
its altitude as 29,002 feet, the tallest in the world, and reported the
matter to his boss, Mr. Everest. The British Administration of India named the
peak as Mount Everest.
With so many re-naming going on, I think we should
rename this peak as "Mount Radhanath"
I urge the netters to dig out the history and
discuss the matter in the net.
With love to everybody,
Himendra
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