Correction for the height of Mount Everest
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How long is 6,000 chains?
It's about thirteen-and-a-half times as tall as Mount Everest
The height of Mount Everest is about 439.8740 chains.
(a.k.a. Mount Chomolungma, a.k.a. Sagarmatha, a.k.a. Mount Qomolangma, a.k.a. सगरमाथा, a.k.a. Chajamlungma, a.k.a. ཇོ་མོ་གླང་མ, a.k.a. 珠穆朗玛峰, a.k.a. Zhūmùlǎngmǎ Fēng) (Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal and Tibet, China) (to summit, excluding snow depth)
Mount Everest rises 439.8740 chains above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 0.000198839 chains and shifting it to the northeast by 0.000223694 chains each year.