Which was the highest mount before Everest get discovered?
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Everest was still the highest even though it wasn't known.
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An American man, Erik Weihenmayer, has become the first blind man to successfully reach the summit of Mount Everest. The following links will take you to websites with more information concerning this incredible story. If the google search is available to you simply type in his name and Mount Everest and it will give you many more websites to research.\n\nMommaToldMe...to reach for the sky.
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Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the world's tallest mountain from base to peak! Its base is on the sea floor and it rises 33,480 feet (10,314 meters) in total, reaching 13,796 feet (4205 m) above sea level.
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Reinhold Messner (I might have made a spelling mistake in his surname, you may check him out in wikipedia), Jerzy Kukuczka - the first ones who climbed all the 8000+ mountains, Wanda Rutkiewicz - the first woman to do so - they all have pioneered new routes to the tops or climbed a certain mountain in winter conditions.\nSir Edmund Hilary - the first one to climb Mount Everest
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Zed al-Rifai, the first Arab to climb and reach the summit of Mount Everest is now officially the first Arab to climb and reach the summit of Cho Oyo Mountain. Rifai, announced last Thursday at 1:50 p.m. Beijing time his successful climb to mount Cho Oyo from altitude 8,201 meters.\n\nRifai is a Kuwaiti national and the first Arab to climb Mount Everest. He made history by being the 46th person to climb all seven highest summits in the seven continents of the world. On September 9th, Rifai commenced his adventure to climb Cho Oyo, the sixth highest mountain in the world.
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Kilimanjaro carries a few titles of "highest" according to the pages...  One is highest in Africa, one as highest active volcano, and another as highest free-standing peak (no mountain range like Himilayas).  Samahani, can't find a listing that goes far enough down for a rank in peak height in the world; it's after 50 at least I think!\n\nFrom first source:  Rising to a height of 5, 985 meters, (19,340 feet) Mt. Kilimanjaro is the highest peak in Africa, arguably the world's highest volcano and the highest freestanding mountain in the world. It also takes its place as one of the 'Seven Summits', a holy grail for climbers consisting of the highest peaks in each of the seven continents. \n\nFrom second source:  Africa's tallest mountain (der höchste Berg Afrikas) was long thought to be nothing but a legend. After all, how could there be a snow-capped peak just three degrees south of the equator? But German-speaking explorers were the first Europeans to ever see and climb Kilimanjaro—and establish the mountain's existence.\nKilimanjaro is also the world's highest mountain that can be climbed by hiking (walking), but the lower, more jagged Mawensi volcanic peak (17,564 ft) was not climbed until 1912 and requires mountaineering experience.
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Most people when they talk about the Himalayas are referring to a group of several mountain ranges which includes the Hindu Kush, Karakoram and Himalaya Mountains.  Using the name Greater Himal or Greater Himalayas would be a better term for the grouped mountains.\n\nThe Greter Himalayan region extends for about 2500km, is about 300km wide and lies within China, Nepal, India, Pakistan, Bhutan and the Tibetan Autonomous Region of Southern China.\n\nAll of the worlds highest peaks are found here including Mount Everest (8848 metres and also known as Sagarmatha or Chomolungma).  The highest point outside the region is Aconcagua (6690m) which is towards the southern end of the Andes Chain in South America.
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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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Mount Everest in the Himalayas is widely regarded as the tallest mountain in the world. However it's height is only from Sea level.\n\n"Hawaii's Mauna Kea, though, rises an astonishing 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth."
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Himalayas.\n\nMt Everest is the highest mountain in the world at 8850m.\n\nThe second highest is K2 at 8611m. But it is not in the Himalayas, The range is the Karakorum.\n\nThe third highest is Kanchenjunga which is 8,586m and is in the Himalayas.\n\nSo technically your crossword is wrong!!
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A mountain is an elevation in the earth's surface. The elevation, or altitude, of a mountain is given as the height of the summit above sea level. Mountains are much bigger than hills. Most of the time they are made up elongated ranges. It is rare when a mountain stands alone.\n\nWhat is the difference between tallest and highest? Tallest: the top is the furthest away from the base. Highest: the top is the furthest away from sea level. There are three ways of measuring the height of a mountain. So which mountain is the tallest? One way to measure a mountain is by measuring from sea level. The second way is by measuring from base to peak. The third way is by measuring the distance from the center of the earth to the peak of the mountain.\n\nMt. Everest, on the Nepal-Tibet border in the Himalayas, is the highest mountain on earth. It is about 8,850 meters above sea level. height was confirmed in December 1983 during a surveillance mission by the space shuttle Columbia. Mauna Kea, or "White Mountain"a volcano of the "Big Island" of Hawaii, is the tallest mountain on earth. It measure about 10,200 meters from base to summit. Chimborazo is a volcano in the Andes of Ecuador. It measures about 6,310 meters above sea level. When height is measured from the center of the earth, Chimborazo is tallest since it is located nearly on the equator, where the earth bulges the most.
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Mount Everest. Its summit ridge marks the border between Nepal and China. The mountain is approximately 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high. \n\nThe mountain K2 comes in second at 8,611 m (28,251 feet) high.
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With out a doubt Bar-Head Geese!\n\nAt 29,028 feet, Mount Everest is tall enough to poke into the jet stream, a high-altitude river of wind that blows at speeds of more than 200 miles an hour. Temperatures on the mountain can plummet low enough to freeze exposed flesh instantly. Its upper reaches offer only a third of the oxygen available at sea level--so little that if you could be transported instantly from sea level to Everest's summit, without time to acclimatize, you would probably lose consciousness within minutes. Kerosene cannot burn here; helicopters cannot fly here. Yet every spring, flocks of bar-headed geese--the world's highest-altitude migrants--fly from their winter feeding grounds in the lowlands of India through the Himalayan range, sometimes even directly above Everest, on their way to their nesting grounds in Tibet. Then every fall these birds retrace their route to India. With a little help from tailwinds, they may be able to cover the one-way trip--more than 1,000 miles--in a single day.
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The Himalayas, some of the tallest mountains in the world... home to Mt. Everest, K2, etc.
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Mount Everest 29,028 ft.\n\nRange: Khumbu Himzlaya\n\nRegion: Nepal Tebet
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The HIGHEST is Mount Everest at 8,848 metres.\n\nPu'u Wekiu (in Hawaii, USA) is the tallest as it starts from the ocean.\nit is 4208 metres high
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mount everest.\nbefore it was named, it was historically the same from dfferent nationalities who found it and to the locals to nepal to china... research found out that it was mount everest after all. and it will always be mount everest.