what's the highest mountain in the world?
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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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1.)  "A third way to determine the world's highest mountain is to measure the distance from the center of the earth to the peak. Using this method, Chimborazo in the Andes triumphs. Although it stands but 20,561 feet (6,267 meters) above sea level, its peak is the farthest from the earth's center."\n\nhttp://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/BeataUnke.shtml\n\n2.)  i'll divide one AU (149,597,870.691 KM) by the speed of light (1,079,252,848.8 km/h), which comes to 0.1386 hours or approx 8 minuets and 20 secs.  Just my best guess.\n\n3.)  30,000 volts\n\nwww.liboatingworld.com/archive/2004/11/LIBW/LIBW_21.pdf
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Mount Averest in Nepal/China is the highest peak in South-east Asia and the world at 29,035 ft or 8,850 meter.\n\nIt is not a local name but international usage, named after the British explorer, Sir Averest who discovered it.
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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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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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3 answers in one :-\nAccording to The Guinness Book of World Records, the highest town in the world is Wenzhuan, which was founded in 1955 on the Qinghai-Tibet road north of the Tangla mountain range. It is 16,730 feet above sea level.\n\nThe highest capital in the world, before the domination of Tibet by China, was Lhasa, with an elevation of 12,087 feet above sea level. La Paz, the administrative and de facto capital of Bolivia, stands at an altitude of 11,913 feet above sea level.\n\nAnd finally, the highest city in the United States is Leadville, Colo. with an elevation of 10,152 feet.
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Bukit Timah is the highest point on Singapore.\nMount Everest is the highest point on Earth.\n\nIn Malay, Bukit Timah is Bukit Timah.\nIn Tibetan, Mount Everest is Qomolangma.\nBoth ethnic names have 4 syllables.\n\nBukit Timah is 164m.\nMount Everest is 8848m.\nBoth are above sea level and their heights are divisible by 4.
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Mount Everest\n \ndoes volcanoes count??? ~ Mauna Kea\n\nLook in the websites below
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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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Factual knowledge is like: The higest mountain in the world is mount Everest\n\nExplanatory knowledge is like: Mount Everest was formed by tectonic activity where two plates pushed against eachother causing the ground to rise.
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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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Africa: Mt. Kilimanjaro\nNorth America: Denali\nEurope: Elbrus\nSouth America: Aconcagua\nAustralia: Carstensz\nAntarctica: Vinson\nAsia: Everest\n\n*Note: In North America, Mt. McKinley has the highest peak (highest point above sea level) however, Denali in Alaska is actually the tallest mountain. But, this is probably for school so you'd better go with McKinley.
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The Rocky Mountain Range; not only are they the longest mountain chain in the United States, they are also the longest mountain range in the world stretching from the southern tip of Argentinia to upper British Columbia in Canada.
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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 world's highest observatory is in India. The Indian Astronomical Observatory is in the western Himalayan mountains, at 14,800 feet above sea level.
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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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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.