what was the higest mountain before the invention of  mount everst?
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Mountains are not invented.
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The Himalayas, some of the tallest mountains in the world... home to Mt. Everest, K2, etc.
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Everest, Mount, mountain peak in the Himalayas of southern Asia, considered the highest mountain in the world. Mount Everest is situated at the edge of the Tibetan Plateau (Qing Zang Gaoyuan), on the border between Nepal and Tibet.\nThe mountain was named for Sir George Everest, a British military engineer who served as surveyor general of India from 1829 to 1843, during which time the peak was surveyed. Everest was the first person to record the location and height of the mountain, then known as Peak XV.
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There are a couple of destinations called Mount Mitchell.\n\nThere is Mount Mitchell State Park in North Carolina. It offers a range of recreational activities including:\n\n* Camping;\n\n* Horseback riding;\n\n* Picnicking.\n\nIt contains Mount Mitchell which is the highest mountain in the eastern US. It is named after Dr Elisha Mitchell a Professor at the University of North Carolina. In 1857, Dr Mitchell died on the mountain while trying to verify his work.\n\nMount Mitchell is also a mountain 100 kilometeres west of Brisbane in Australia and just south of Cunninghams Gap. There is a trail to the summit which offers great views including the Brisbane skyline and the D'Aguilar Range.
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A mountain is a landform that extends above the surrounding terrain in a limited area. A mountain is generally much higher and steeper than a hill, but there is considerable overlap, and usage often depends on local custom. Some authorities define a mountain as a peak with a topographic prominence over an arbitrary value: for example, the Encyclopædia Britannica requires a prominence of 2,000 feet (610 m).
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Before they had GPS, altimeters, and satellites to measure altitudes, they estimated the height of a mountain using trigonometry.  If the distance to the mountain can be estimated or determined, the height of the mountain can be calculated from the angle between looking straight and looking up at the top of the mountain.  \n\nThe link in sources gives an example.
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The elevation of mount Everest has been recently revised — 29,035 feet (8850 meters), two meters or seven feet higher than the previously accepted figure.This was determined using Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite equipment on the very top of Mount Everest last May by scientists supported by the National Geographic and Boston's Museum of Science.
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anywhere that was undetwater for a significant time in geologic history
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The tallest known Mountain in the solar system is an extinct volcano on Mars named Mons Olympus.
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The worlds highest mountain is Mount Everest and its located in the Himalayan ranges. (between India and Nepal) It is in Nepal and its height is 29,028 ft (8853m)
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Mount Parin Church Of God.\n(i may of misspelled Parin)
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Ushba mountain, Svaneti\n\nUshba is one of the highest Georgian mountains, it is 4710 m. above the sea level. \nUshba is a beautifully steep mountain with twin peaks, draped in snow and glaciers. It has been called the "Matterhorn of the Caucasus," although Ushba is nearly one thousand feet higher than the Matterhorn (14,688 ft.), and is much more massive. Its second peak (15,407 ft,) is located just northeast of the slightly higher main peak. Ushba's high steep faces and icy ridges have captured the interest of mountaineers for over a century. Despite its remoteness, the mountain received much attention around the turn of the twentieth century, and was climbed by all the obvious routes within a twenty year period after its first ascent. Today there are fifty official routes to the summit. None are easy.
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Mount Everest. It just wasn't discovered yet.
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Mount Averest in Nepal/China is the highest peak in South-east Asia and the world at 29,035 ft or 8,850 meter.\n\nIt is not a local name but international usage, named after the British explorer, Sir Averest who discovered it.
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That's not really easy to answer, as the older mountains get, the more they diminish and blend with the surrounding land.  So many places where you see large, rolling hills or even flat land may have once been mountains.  If you do a Google search, you will find at least three different mountain ranges that people say are the oldest (Blue Ridge Mts. in Georgia, some Indian mountains, and the above-mentioned Australian mountains).  I would personally say that they're all wrong, and the oldest mountains are probably something very unimpressive that we don't even call mountains.
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In 1783, a segment of the ridge which emerges above sea-level in Iceland erupted more than 12 cubic kilometers of lava- enough to pave the entire U.S. interstate freeway system to a depth of 10 meters.\n\nK. Macdonald, was Co-Chief Scientist of the expedition that first discovered black smoker vents and their deposits in 1979 using the deep-diving submersible, Alvin, on the East Pacific Rise].
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mt kilimanjaro was discovered in 1848 but no record is available to date about t its age however, my guess is as old as the planet earth. the beauty of mt Kilimanjaro was part of the design God made when He created the earth