At Everest, a rival!

Highest Mountain Peak WORLD Mount Everest - the highest elevation above sea level, everyone knows that the top of Mount Everest - the highest point of the Earth's surface. Climbers from all over the world try to climb Everest to their own experience to understand what is actually - the highest point. The peak of Mount Everest has a height of 8848 meters above sea level. All other mountains below, so called Everest and the highest mountain. Mauna Kea - the highest elevation land surface extinct volcano Mauna Kea is the height above sea level, only 4,205 feet - far lower than Mount Everest. However, this mountain, in contrast to the Chomolungma is on an island called Hawaii and is located in the Pacific Ocean. If you measure the distance from the ocean floor near the island before the volcano's summit, we get a quantity greater than eight and a half miles. Mauna Kea in such measurement is the highest mountain, if to count down from the nearby earth's surface, and let some of it is under water. The volcano is at the same time more than ten kilometers. Chimborazo - the most distant point from the center of the Earth's surface covered with glaciers volcano Chimborazo in Ecuador is located near the prime meridian. It has a height of 6,310 meters, it is high Mauna Kea, and less than the height of Everest. However, Mount Chimborazo has a record - its top is located the farthest from the center of the Earth. This, at first glance, the strange fact is easily explained by the fact that the earth is far from spherical. Our planet is in fact - a spheroid, flattened by the poles. Scientifically speaking, forming the Earth's surface has an elliptical shape. Therefore, the equatorial regions are at a greater distance from the Earth than the Polar. Volcano Chimborazo is located at a latitude of one degree south of the equator, so this arrangement allows it to be the champion. The top of Chimborazo is removed from the center of the Earth at 6,384 kilometers, which is more than 2 km over the height of the "crown" of Everest. _________________________________ Translated from English Zhdanov © Copy materials from the site is strictly prohibited! See also: Land Basin Record of a tsunami wave height the largest lake in the world based on the volume and surface area of ??the Desert-record largest edifice that was built on the planet living beings the most-most waterfalls of the world record heights over the world The deepest point of the oceans