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Mount Everest Is Getting Taller

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Mount Everest is nearly 1,000 feet ( 304 meters ) taller than its surrounding Himalayan peaks.

The mountain is growing by up to08 inches ( 2mm ) per year, according to a study published earlier this week in Nature Geoscience .

Over the past 89,000 years the 29,032-foot ( 8,849 m) peak sprouted between 50 feet ( 15 m) and 164 feet ( 50 m) Over tens of thousands of years the Arun River has eroded its banks, washing sediment downriver.

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