what's the height of everest?
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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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himalay is situated in some parts of india n nepal.\nit is the oldest n highest mountain ranges of the world.\nmount everest is the highest mountain range its height is 8448m
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The tallest mountain on the planet is not Mt. Everest, which is only 29 028 ft/8848 m high!  The tallest mountain in the world is actually Mauna Kea, in Hawaii, which is closer to 31 000 ft/\n9449 m high.\n\nYou just can't see the two-thirds of the mountain that is under water.
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Boulder's official altitude is 5363.\nI'm sure there are places 5400 feet in town.
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Dont know what you mean by foothills. Kathmandu is at about 4264ft, Tingri is about 14200 ft. (from sea sevel)\nWhen you start climbing, usually first Base Camp is established at about 17000 ft (above sea level), ABC (Advanced Base Camp is usually about 21300 ft above sea level. The C3 (highest camp before Summit push) is about 27230 ft above sea level
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Everest although no-one can say for sure.  On 8th June 1924 it's possible that George Mallory and Andrew Irvine reached the summit, this was 29 years prior to Hilary and Norgay.\n\nMallory and Irvine died on the mountain and were last observed very close to the summit before cloud obscured them.  No-one knows if they died on their way up or if they made it to the summit and died on the way down.
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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, while Mt. Everest which is located on the border between Nepal and China, not in India like the person "Student" said.  Mt. Everest from base to peak is 29,028 feet (8,848 meters). Mt. Mauna Kea beats Everest by 4,452 feet (1,466 meters). It's true that Mt. Everest reaches the highest, but it's not the tallest.
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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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"Unfortunately, there is no universally accepted standard definition for the height of a mountain or a hill although a mountain usually has an identifiable summit. In the United Kingdom, a mountain must be over 600 meters (1969 feet) or over 300 meters (984 feet) if it's an abrupt difference in the local topography. However, some hills can be called mountains and some mountains can be called hills - it's just a matter of the original name given to the relief."
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14:\n\nEverest / 8850m / Tibet/Nepal\nK2 / 8611m / China/Kashmir\nKanchenjunga / 8586m / India/Nepal\nLhotse / 8516m / China/Nepal\nMakalu / 8463m / Tibet/Nepal\nCho Oyu / 8201m / Tibet/Nepal\nDhaulagiri / 8167m / Nepal\nManaslu / 8156m / Nepal\nNanga Parbat / 8125m / Kashmir\nAnnapurna / 8091m / Nepal\nGasherbrum I / 8068m / China/Kashmir\nBroad Peak / 8047m / China/Kashmir\nGasherbrum II / 8035m / China/Kashmir\nShishapangma / 8027m / Tibet
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Mount Everest — Longitude: 86° 56′ 40″ E
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Heights!..How bout that?
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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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MOUNT EVEREST DUH!!!!
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Radhanath Sikdar, an Indian mathematician and surveyor from Bengal, was the first to identify Everest as the world's highest peak in 1852, using trigonometric calculations based on measurements made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India. Before it was surveyed and named, it was known as Peak XV to the survey team.\n\nThe mountain is approximately 8,848 m (29,028 feet) high, although there is some variation in the measurements. The mountain K2 comes in second at 8,611 m (28,251 feet) high. On May 22, 2005, the People's Republic of China's Everest Expedition Team ascended to the top of the mountain. After several months' complicated measurement and calculation, on October 9, 2005, the PRC's State Bureau of Surveying and Mapping officially announced the height of Everest is 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft). They claimed it was the most accurate measurement to date.[3]. But this new height is based on the actual highest point of rock and not on the snow and ice that sits on top of that rock on the summit, so, in keeping with the practice used on Mont Blanc and Khan Tangiri Shyngy, it is not shown here. The Chinese also measured a snow/ice depth of 3.5 m [4], which implies agreement with a net elevation of 8,848 m. But in reality the snow and ice thickness varies, making a definitive height of the snow cap, and hence the precise height attained by summiteers without sophisticated GPS, impossible to determine.\n\nThe first measurement was with theodolites in 1856. Due to lack of access to Nepal at the time, it was measured from a distance. It was found to be exactly 29,000 feet (8,839 m), but declared to be 29,002 feet (8,840 m) high. The arbitrary addition of 2 feet (0.6 m) was to avoid the impression that an exact height of 29,000 feet was nothing more than a rounded estimate.\n\nThe elevation of 8,848 m (29,028 ft) was first determined by an Indian survey in 1955, made closer to the mountain, also using theodolites. It was subsequently reaffirmed by a 1975 Chinese measurement [5]. In both cases the snow cap, not the rock head, was measured. In May 1999 an American Everest Expedition, directed by Bradford Washburn, anchored a GPS unit into the highest bedrock. A rock head elevation of 8,850 m (29,035 feet), and a snow/ice elevation 1 m (3 ft) higher, were obtained via this device [6]. Nepal, however, did not officially recognize this survey, and the discrepancy with the above mentioned 2005 Chinese survey is significantly greater than the surveys' claimed accuracy.\n\nIt is thought that the plate tectonics of the area are adding to the height and moving the summit north-eastwards. Two accounts, [7], [8] suggest the rates of change are 4 mm per year (upwards) 3-6 mm per year (northeastwards), but this account[9] mentions more lateral movement (27 mm), and even shrinkage has been mooted [10].\n\nEverest is the mountain whose summit attains the greatest distance above sea level. Two other mountains are sometimes claimed as alternative "highest mountains on Earth". Mauna Kea in Hawaii is highest when measured from its base; it rises over 9 km (5.6 mi) when measured from its base on the mid-ocean floor, but only attains 4,170 m (13,681 ft) above sea level. The summit of Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2,168 m (7,113 ft) farther from the Earth's centre (6,384.4 km or 3,967.1 mi) than that of Everest (6,382.3 km or 3,965.8 mi), because the Earth bulges at the Equator. However, Chimborazo attains a height of 6,267 m (20,561 ft) above sea level, and by this criterion it is not even the highest peak of the Andes.\n\nThe deepest spot in the ocean is deeper than Everest is high: the Challenger Deep, located in the Mariana Trench, is so deep that if Everest were to be placed into it there would be more than 2 km (1.25 mi) of water covering it.\n\nThe Mount Everest region, and the Himalayas in general, are thought to be suffering ice-melt due to global warming. The exceptionally heavy S
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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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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.