Mount everest is called the world s highest mountain because it has the highest elevation above sea level we could also say that it has the highest altitude the peak of mount everest is 8 848 meters 29 029 feet above sea level.
Tallest mountain in the world from sea floor.
No other mountain on earth has a higher altitude.
Much of its base is on the ocean floor nearly 6 000m below the surface.
Height was confirmed in december 1983 during a surveillance mission by the space shuttle columbia.
Mauna kea is about a million years old and has thus passed the most active shield stage of life hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Mauna kea technically the world s highest mountain 10 000 meters from base to peak 4 207 meters of which are above sea level mauna kea started underwater and never looked back.
Not only the world s highest mountain but perhaps also the world s most famous mountain mount everest is also known as sagarmatha and chomolungma in the native himalayan tongue.
Everest on the nepal tibet border in the himalayas is the highest mountain on earth.
Most of the volcano is underwater and when measured from its underwater base mauna kea is the tallest mountain in the world measuring 10 200 m 33 500 ft in height.
Scaling the tallest mountain on earth would take you not to mt.
Mauna kea or white mountain a volcano of the big island of hawaii is the tallest mountain on earth.
It is about 8 850 meters above sea level.
Its peak is the highest point in the state of hawaii giving an overall height of 10 000m.
Mount everest 8 848 m at a staggering 8 848 m or 29 035 feet above sea level mount everest is the tallest mountain in the world.
That title goes to mauna kea volcano on hawaii.
Everest but to mauna kea on the big island of hawaii.