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🗓️ 3 March 2022
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0:00.0 | You're probably well aware that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on earth. |
0:03.7 | Because of its status is the highest point on earth, it's attracted thousands of people |
0:07.9 | who have climbed to its summit. In the process, it's also killed hundreds of people who died in the attempt. |
0:13.0 | Learn more about the history of trying to climb Mount Everest |
0:16.0 | on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world lies on the border of China and Nepal in the |
0:38.3 | Himalayan mountains. |
0:40.1 | And just to be pedantic, it's only the tallest mountain depending on how you measure it. |
0:44.0 | It is the highest point above sea level on Earth. |
0:48.0 | However, it's not the point on the planet that is furthest from the center of the Earth |
0:52.0 | or the point that is closest to space. |
0:55.2 | That would be Mount Chimbasoro in Ecuador. |
0:57.6 | And the reason that this is the point furthest from the center has to do with the fact that it's |
1:01.3 | near the equator. The Earth bulges just |
1:03.8 | slightly enough to make up for the difference in height between it and Eversed. |
1:07.0 | Likewise, if you measure from the base of a mountain to the top, |
1:10.8 | Eversed is also not the largest. That would be Monikea in Hawaii, which |
1:14.8 | has a base that extends to the bottom of the ocean. If you just consider the base to the |
1:19.2 | peak on land, then it's also not Everest. That would be Mountinale in Alaska. |
1:24.0 | So that nitpicking aside. For the purpose of this episode, Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world. |
1:29.0 | Coming in at a whopping 8,848.86 meters or 29,31.7 feet. It actually took a lot of work to figure out |
1:38.7 | that Everest was in fact the tallest mountain in the world. In 1802 the British began an effort to survey |
1:44.0 | the entire continent of India in what was known as the Great Trigonometrical |
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