On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 22:54:45 +0000, Alan White wrote:

You have way much too much faith in journalists to report accurately
or question the information they are given from "experts". I suspect
they were told that the altimeter had regsistered a maximum of 9947m.

It did register that. There was a shot on News24.

You are falling into the same trap as the journo's. The instrument says
9947 so it must have actually reached that altitude, a bad assumption.

What make and model of altimeter was it? So we can find out how it
measures altitude and thus if the recorded reading can actually be relied
upon to be accurate to 1m when inside a storm.

I suggest a pressure operated altimeter cannot be trusted to be within
1,500m or much worse under those conditions.

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