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Is 868 shackles as wide as Mount Everest?

It's about two-and-a-half times as tall as Mount Everest
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The height of Mount Everest is about 322.5740 shackles.
(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 8,848.86 m above sea level at its summit. The plate tectonics of the Indian subcontinent continuously alter the mountain's peak — raising it by 4 mm and shifting it to the northeast by 4.5 mm each year.
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