What is the tallest mountain in the world?

Answer 1

Mt. Everest?

Answer 2

Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain in the world, even taller than Mount Everest, according to the Guinness Book of Records.
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The World's Tallest Mountain

Everyone knows that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, right? Well, if you want to get technical about it, the answer is NO.

Mount Everest stands 29,028 feet tall. From top to bottom, it's taller than any other mountain--whose bottom is the surface of the earth.

Here's the catch: If you add what's underneath, then Mount Everest isn't the tallest mountain. The winner then is Mauna Kea, a huge, very tall volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii (called Hawaii). Mauna Kea stretches 13,796 above water and 19,680 underwater, for a total of 33,476!

So if you say that it's the whole mountain that counts, then Mauna Kea is the tallest.
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Answer 3

Mt. Everest is the tallest above sea level, Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii, is the tallest mountain in the world, from base to peak (about 32,000 feet), its base being some 19,000 feet under water.

Answer 4

If you measure the mountain from below sea level, it would be Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii. More than half of Mauna Kea is below sea level. Above sea level, Mauna Kea measures 13, 796 ft. Measured from the base of the mountain at sea level, Mauna Kea rises to 32,000 ft. making it the tallest mountain in the world. If you measure above sea level, Everest in Nepal is 29,035 ft. making it the tallest mountain in the world.

Answer 5

Mountains are generally measured from sea level, in which case Mount Everest (29,028 feet; 8,848 meters) is king.

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

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."

Answer 6

Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the tallest mountain in the world

Answer 7

Mt Everest

Answer 8

Everest is the tallest above sea level.

The tallest mountain in the world is actually Mauna Kea, but it is mostly below sea level.

Answer 9

The tallest, i.e. from baseline to summit, is Mt. McKinley (or Denali) in Alaska. Obviously the HIGHEST is Everest. But you're trying to trick me, ain't ya???

Answer 10

Mount Everest

Answer 11

Mauna Kea