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Kami Rita was in the first group of climbers to reach the summit this year and was fixing the ropes on the icy route so hundreds of other climbers can scale the peak this month.
The new height of the world’s highest peak is 8,848.86 meters (29,031.7 feet), slightly more than Nepal’s previous measurement and about 4 meters higher than China’s.
The five South Korean climbers and four Nepalese guides hoped to map a new route to a peak that hasn’t been scaled in eight years.
Nepalese rescuers on Friday found three bodies near the wreckage of a U.S. Marine helicopter that disappeared earlier this week while on a relief mission in the earthquake-hit Himalayan nation, and officials said it was unlikely there were any survivors from the crash.
A major earthquake hit a remote mountain region of Nepal on Tuesday, killing at least 37 people while triggering landslides and toppling buildings less than three weeks after the Himalayan nation was ravaged by its worst quake in decades.