The aeronautical chart for that area would show a minimum safe altitude that would easily clear Mt. Everest no matter what the actual atmospheric pressure was.
cm > >Of Michael Payne > >Mountains are not shown with heights in hPa. > > Pay attention at the back :-) > > The unit 'feet' used to describe cruising aircraft altitude is not the same > as height above mountains. An aircraft described as flying at 30000 'feet' > could crash into Everest at 29000 feet. >
