Where is the highest mountain on earth located?
Mount Everest, also known in Nepal as "Sagarmāthā," and in Tibet as "Chomolungma," is the highest mountain on Earth, with its peak measuring 8,848 meters (29,029 feet) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. Many people have died trying to reach the top, and their corpses have been left along the way, due to the difficulty of removing them.
Sometimes Mauna Kea in Hawaii is known as the tallest mountain, since its slope from its base measures 10,200 m (33,464 ft), but its peak is only 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level.
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Gold Toy Box
David Heller,
I knew that this was going to come up. Tallest base to top vs tallest above sea level.
Bob deRoos
That was a tough one.
Spike Holmes
Actually, the highest mountain on Earth is BELOW SEA LEVEL, - but, of the choices given, "Everest", in the Himalayas, is the highest, - at 29,028 feet
Steve McVey
Ed Speers, so I'm 4000miles and 6feet tall?
Chris Gramm Williams
Hawaii was not a choice. Mountain height is measured from above sea level.
benoaks
A give me
Laurie A Thrasher
Vernon King, just Mauna Kea. Measured from sea floor to peak.
Laurie A Thrasher
So disgusting what hikers, climbers have done to this mountain. All their trash, bodies left on the slopes.
Cheryl McMeekin
Second guessed myself, instead of going with my first choice.
Kevin Dale Streets
Seriously? Someone said Grand Canyon?! Give that person a dictionary, and have him look up the word "mountain!"
Shobha Javalgikar
So beautiful photography
Janice Fish
Great question
Jon Pyzel
TECHNICALLY, Mauna Kra rises from the sea floor, Mt Everest starts 2 miles high
Raashid Khan
Got it.
Larry Freeman
Daniel Halley,
"Their salt" comes from Pakistan, almost 200 miles from the Himalayas... check it out.
Jon Woolery
The peak of Mt. Everest is the highest point on Earth, and the 29,000-foot high Mt. Everest sits on the Asian land mass. The Big Island of Hawaii is the world's highest mountain, sitting on the sea floor about 18,000 feet down and rising to almost 14,000 fee above sea level: Total height of the mountain: 33,000 feet or thereabouts, higher than Mt. Everest.