The highest mountain on Earth is not the closest mountain to outer space — because the planet bulges outward at the equator, the summit of a volcano in Ecuador called Chimborazo sits farther from t...

spacedaily.com/d-the-highest-mountain-o...uador-called-chimborazo-sits-farther-fThe specific highest point on the planet Earth, measured by the standard elevation metric of height above mean sea level, is the summit of Mount Everest — the 8,848.86-metre-tall Himalayan peak on the Nepal-Tibet border, first successfully summited by the New Zealand mountaineer Edmund Hillary and the Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay on 29 May 1953, […]

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