Before Mt. Everest was discovered, what was the tallest mountain in the world?
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Mt Everest always was the tallest mountain, even before it was discovered.
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The Mt.Everest is the highest....\nMount Everest 8850m (29035 ft) Asia \n\nMount Kilimanjaro 5963m (19563 ft) Africa \n\nThe Matterhorn (Switzerland) 4470m (14654 ft)
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Kathmandu ,Near which there is Mt. everest the highest one in the world
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I always like to say the Mauna Loa volcano, which from base to peak is 1-2,000 feet higher than Mt. Everest. 16,000 ft. of it is below sea level though hehe. \n\nThe wording of the question prolly means Everest is a better answer but, everyone else already answered Everest anyways hehe.
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Oddly enough both the first two answers are correct.\n\nThe tallest individual tree in the world is a Rdewood/sequioa.\n\nThe tallest tree species in the world is mountain ash. \n\nThe reason for the discrepancy is that they discovered the tallest mountain ash by measuringit as it lay on the gorund. They had just cut down the tallest tree in the world.\n\nSo although Mountain Ash grow slightly taller than redwood there is no living mountain ash that is taller than the tallest living redwood.
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Is this a trick question? Mt. Everest was the tallest, whether people measured it or not.\n\nOr do you mean, which one did we THINK was the tallest before Everest took that title? Better ask what you mean!
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The Appalachian mountain range is the oldest in the world.\n\nThe birth of the Appalachian ranges, some 480 million years ago.
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If you're thinking of the highest peak, then yes it is Mt. Everest, but as many do not know, the island of Hawaii is actually a mountain submerged in water, whose height surpasses that of Mt. Everest.
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Sagarmatha is Mount Everest. its 8850 metres high.
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Facts Of Everest:\n\n1. Age of Everest: Everest was formed about 60 million years      ago.\n\n2. Elevation: 29,035 (8850m)-found to be 6' higher in 1999.\n\n3. Name in Nepal: Sagarmatha (means: goddess of the sky).\n\n4. In Tibet: Chomolungma: (means: mother goddess of the   universe).\n\n5. Named after: Sir George Everest in 1865 ,the British  surveyor-general of India. Once known as Peak 15\n\n6. Location: Latitude 27° 59' N.....Longitude 86° 56' E It's summit ridge seperates Nepal and Tibet.\n\n7. First Ascent: May 29,1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary, NZ and Tenzing Norgay, NP, via the South Col Route.\n\n8. First Solo Ascent: Aug. 20,1980, Reinhold Messner, IT, via the NE Ridge to North Face.\n\n9. First winter Ascent: Feb.. 17,1980 -L.Cichy and K. Wielicki, POL.\n\n10. First Ascent by an American: May 1,1963, James Whittaker, via the South-Col.\n\n11. Mt. Everest rises a few milimeters each year due to geological forces.\n\n12. Everest Name: Sir George Everest was the first person to record the height and location of Mt. Everest, this is where Mt."Everest" got its name from(In american language).\n\n13. First Ascent by a Woman: May 16,1975, Junko Tabei, JAP, via the South-Col\n\n14. First Ascent by an American Woman: Sep.29,1988, Stacey Allison, Portland, OR via the South-East Ridge.\n\n15. First Oxygenless Ascent: May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge.\n\n16. First woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both north & south sides: Cathy O'Dowd (S.A.) South May 25,1996/North '99.\n\n17. Fastest Ascent from South: Babu Chhiri Sherpa 34, NP-16 hours and 56 minutes (5-21-2000). \n\n18. Fastest Ascent (north side): Hans Kammerlander (IT) May,24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp.\n\n19. Youngest person: Temba Tsheri (NP) 15 on May,22,2001.\n\n20. Oldest Person: Sherman Bull May,25,2001-64 yrs.\n\n21. First Legally Blind Person: Erik Weihenmeyer May,25,2001.\n\n22. Most Ascents: Eleven, 24th May 2000 Appa Sherpa became the first person to climb Everest 11 times-Ten, Ang Rita Sherpa, Babu Chiri Sherpa all ascents were oxygen-less. \n  \n23. Best and Worst Years on Everest: 1993, 129 summitted and eight died (a ratio of 16:1); in 1996, 98 summitted and 15 died (a ratio of 6½:1).\n\n24. Highest cause cause of death: Avalanches-about a (2:1) ratio over falls.\n\n25. Country with most deaths on mountain: Nepal-46\n\n26. Most dangerous area on mountain: Khumbu Ice Fall-19 deaths. \n\n27. First ski descent: Davo Karnicar (Slovenia) 10-7-2000\n\n28. Last year without ascent: 1974\n\n29. Corpses remaining on Everest: about 120\n\n30. Longest stay on top: Babu Chiri Sherpa stayed at the summit full 21 hours and a half.\n\n30. Largest team: In 1975, China tackled Everest with a 410-member team.\n\n31. Fastest descent: In 1988, Jean-Marc Boivin of France descended from the top in just 11 minutes, paragliding.\n\n32. Only climber to climb all 4 sides of Everest: Kushang Sherpa, now an instructor with Himlayan Mountaineering Institute.\n\n33. First person to hike from sea level to summit, no oxygen.: 11th May 1990,Tim Macartney-Snape, Australian.\n\n34. Largest number to reach the top in one day: 40, on May 10, 1993.\n\n35. First person to summit Everest twice: Nawang Gombu-Nepal(once with Whitaker in '63,and again two years later in '65)Gombu now works for the Himalayan mountaineering institute.\n\n36. The oldest woman to summit: Anna Czerwinska May 22, 2000. \n\nOverview:\nElevation (feet): 29035\nElevation (meters): 8850\nRange: Himalaya\nCountry: Nepal\nContinent: Asia\nLatitude: 27.9833\nLongitude: 86.9333\nDifficulty: Major Mountain Expedition\nBest months for climbing: April, May\nYear first climbed: 1953\nConvenient Center: Namche Bazar, Nepal\nNearest major airport: Kathmandu, Nepal\n\n\n\nMount Everest is the highest mountain in the world. Its elevation of 29,035 feet (8,850 meters) was determi
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I don't know about tallest, but highest:\n1) Everest\n2) K2\n3)Kangchenjunga\n4)Makalu\n5)Cho Oyu
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Actually, a mountain is anything over 2000 ft of local relief, hill is anything under.  \n\nThe world's tallest hill is in Poteau, OK, and is 1999 ft tall.
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K2 holds the position as the second highest mountain.  In the Karakoram range between Pakistan and China, it is   28,250 feet high (8,611 meters.)  K2's name comes from the letter K in Karakoram and the 2 indicating it was the second peak in the region to be measured.  \n\nK2 was called Dapsang by locals, and it is also known as Godwin-Austen after the English topographer Henry Godwin-Austen who explored and surveyed the region.\n\nKangchenjunga on the Nepal/India border is the third highest mountain in the world.  It is in the Himalayas and is 28,169 feet (8,586 meters) high.
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Nawang Gombu Sherpa \n\n1953 - The summit was first reached (in recorded history) at 11:30 am on May 29 by the New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay from Nepal climbing the South Col Route. \n\n1965 - On May 20, Nawang Gombu Sherpa becomes the first person to reach the summit of Everest twice.
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I don't know why people keep on believing that Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to reach Mount Everest's top. He's English (NZ) by the way. I believe that there are many Nepali or Chinese who have conquered the Everest long before him. It's such a biased fact, just because he's a European/Caucasian. He might be the first 'recorded' man to conquer Everest, but certainly not the first person ever to climb Everest.
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yep, the others have it right, Mt Everest, at 29,028 feet (not gonna covert to meters, I just don't feel like it) on the border of Tibet and Nepal, is the highest point on Earth.
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the longest mountain chain in the world is the mid-atlantic ridge. it covers most of the ocean floor.