Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on earth?
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It was still Mt. Everest...just not discovered yet
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What's a Mt Everest for?
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cuz many people go mountaineering there. Mt Everest along with like 10 of the highest mountains in the world are located there.
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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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Its Mount Everest  \n\nMount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth above mean sea level. Its summit ridge marks the border between Nepal and China, but the summit itself is in Nepal.
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What is the world's tallest mountain from base to peak?\nMauna 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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On land, the longest mountain range is the Andes of South America which is 7564 km (4700 mi) in length.\n\nBut if including underwater mountains, mid-Atlantic ridge would be the longest, extending 64,374 km (40,000 mi) from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean, around Africa, Asia, and Australia, and under the Pacific Ocean to the west coast of North America.\n\n(For the person that said the Himalayas, that would be the *highest* not the longest.)
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Mount Everest\n \ndoes volcanoes count??? ~ Mauna Kea\n\nLook in the websites below
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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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Everest wasn't discovered, it's always been there.  Western civilization has known about the Himilayas and Asia since the times of the Romans and probably before that.
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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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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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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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Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth, when measuring the height of its summit above sea level. Everest's summit ridge marks the border between Nepal and China. The summit of Mount Everest is rising at a rate of around 2.5 centimetres per year.\n\nIt is 8,848 metres (29,028 feet) above sea level.
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There are about 450 mountain peaks over 7000 meters (430 peaks over 23,000 feet) tall. Most of these are located in the following mountain ranges: Himalaya, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Hengduan, Pamir, Tanggula, Nyain'a. All of these ranges are in Asia, specifically in Nepal, China, India, Pakistan, Bhutan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.\n\nIn fact, the tallest mountain peak outside of Asia is Aconcagua in Argentina that is 6959 meters (22,831 feet). That puts it at about 485th of the world's tallest peaks. \n\nThe highest peak in the whole world is Mount Everest at 8850 feet.
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yes, u r right. According to a latest Chinese Report, the height of the Mount Everest is now 8,851m in comparison to 8,848m that is adopted all over the world. \nIt is due to the reason that the Indian Tectonic Plate is still moving north towards the Asian Tectonic Plate (that forms the Tibet and rest of the Asia). Because of this phenomenon, the height of the Himalayas is increasing. and no doubt that the height of mount everest has also increased. But, because of certain reasons, the international organisations have decided to keep the height of Mt. Everest at universally known 8,848m
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Mt. Everest was conquored by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, as widely recognized and recorded in history. But, this topic is controvercial.On June 8, 1924, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine, both of the United Kingdom, made an attempt on the summit from which they never returned. Noel Odell, the expedition's geologist, wrote in his diary that he "saw M&I on the ridge, nearing base of final pyramid" at 12:50 pm that day. In 1979 climber Wang Hongbao of China revealed to a companion that he had discovered a body in 1975 thought at the time to be Irvine's, but he unfortunately was killed in a fall the very next day before he could provide precise details to anyone else.\n\nIn 1999, however, the famous Mallory and Irvine Research Expedition found instead Mallory's body in the predicted search area near the old Chinese camp. Controversy has raged in the mountaineering community as to whether the duo may have made it to the top of the world, 29 years before the confirmed ascent (and of course, safe descent) of Everest by Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953.