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Is 551 hands as long as Mount Everest?

It's about one-one-hundred-fiftieth as tall as Mount Everest
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The height of Mount Everest is about 87,095.10 hands.
(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 87,095.10 hands above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 0.0393701 hands and shifting it to the northeast by 0.0442913 hands each year.
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