What is the highest mountain in the world?
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Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level. The mountain, which is part of the Himalaya range in High Asia, is located on the border between Nepal and Tibet.\n\nMeasurement\nRadhanath 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 of "Peak XV" (as it was then known) made with theodolites from 240 km (150 miles) away in India. Measurement could not be made from closer due to a lack of access to Nepal. "Peak XV" was found to be exactly 29,000 feet (8,839 m) high, but was publicly declared to be 29,002 feet (8,840 m). 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 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 as 8,844.43 m ± 0.21 m (29,017.16 ± 0.69 ft). They claimed it was the most accurate measurement to date.[1]. 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 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 [2]. 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 [3]. 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, [4], [5] suggest the rates of change are 4 mm per year (upwards) 3-6 mm per year (northeastwards), but this account[6] mentions more lateral movement (27 mm), and even shrinkage has been suggested [7].\n\nEverest is the mountain whose summit attains the greatest distance above sea level. Two other mountains are sometimes claimed as alternative "tallest mountains on Earth". Mauna Kea in Hawaii is tallest when measured from its base; it rises over 10,203 m (about 6.3 mi) when measured from its base on the mid-ocean floor, but only attains 4,205 m (13,796 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 t
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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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Mt Mckinley has the greatest rise from surrounding plain to peak, I think.  Mt Everest is the highest.
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Mount McKinley is the highest point in North America at 6194 meters (20,320 feet) elevation.  Mount McKinley is located in Denali National Park and Preserve in Alaska.  Denali is the native name for the mountain.\n\nMount McKinley is reputed to have the most severe weather of any mountain on Earth.
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Kathmandu ,Near which there is Mt. everest the highest one in the world
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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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A great view of the highest mountain in South East Asia. It's nice, cool weather. Nice people. Calm and peaceful surrounding.
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Mount Logan is Canada's highest mountain and the second-highest peak in North America, after Denali (Mount McKinley). \n\nIt's elevation is 5,959 metres (19,550 feet)
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Him·a·la·ya Mountains (hĭm'ə-lā'ə, hĭ-mäl'yə) pronunciation or Him·a·la·yas (-əs, -yəs)\n\nA mountain system of south-central Asia extending about 2,414 km (1,500 mi) through Kashmir, northern India, southern Xizang (Tibet), Nepal, Sikkim, and Bhutan. The Himalayas include nine of the world's ten highest peaks, including Mount Everest.
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The peak of Mt. Everest of course.
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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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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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Mount Elbrus (meaning twin peaks) is a peak located in the western Caucasus mountains, in Russia, near the border of Georgia. It is the highest mountain in the Caucasus which belongs to Europe (if the border between Europe and Asia is located south of Mount Elbrus - at the Kura and Qvirila rivers). Mt Elbrus (west summit) stands at 5,642 m (18,506 ft) and can be considered to be the highest mountain in Europe. The east summit is slightly lower: 5,621 m (18,442 ft).
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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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Lake Titicaca.\nThe highest lake in the world!\n\n\nGoodluck!
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Highest Elevation\nTaum Sauk Mountain\n1,772 ft  (540 m)\n\nYou could get more information from the link below...