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PolarDad: Geography Fun! Want to learn something? Start with this... What is the tallest mountain on Earth? It depends on your perspective actually... (see answers)

TomTi89: If it's down to my perspective, then, as someone who doesn't really climb mountains, I pick that one in Kyoto we walked up. It was pretty tall for us. Legs hurt by the end of it and for a few days. Brought about much hunger too.
D00MSTALKER: Attempting to unite humanity is the tallest mountain the amazing D00MSTALKER has climbed.
mr3d: This is really interesting! So, there is such thing as a tallest mountain on Earth, but no one really knows which one it is due to mountain not being uniquely defined. Maybe the tallest mountain could just be the point around which the land sunk the most?
MABBY: The tallest mountain is under water. Pacific Ocean, I beleve.
purplewurple: The tallest mountain in the Netherlands is 4300 miles from Amsterdam
mattomaw: The golf mountain of hitting the driver straight regularly is the biggest mountain to climb in the world.
pricero1: Isn't there a huge mountain under the ocean somewhere?
Woelf: I knew Everest wasn't the highest, but thought K2 (or another in that region) was the top. You're right though, it depends on how it's measured. Distance above sea level is a very different measurement than distance from base to top.
PolarDad: Most people say Mt Everest (China, Nepal) and while it does have the highest point above sea level 29,029 feet [8,848 meters], the question could be answered differently. Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania) is actually taller than Everest if you measure from base to peak. Kilimanjaro’s 18,372 feet [5,600 meters] to Everest’s 17,100 ft [5,200 m]. But wait… Hawaii’s Mauna Kea is partially submerged in the ocean. Should that matter? If not, it measures from base to peak at approximately 33,465 feet [10,200 m]. But wait… Perhaps we are most interested in which peak sticks out the farthest on the Earth. To say it another way…which part of the Earth’s crust is furthest from the center of the Earth? That would be Mount Chimborazo (Ecuador). Even though Mount Chimborazo is only the 39th highest peak in the Andes Mountains, it’s proximity to the Earth’s Equator and thus its placement on the Earth’s “bulge” due to the planet’s rotation makes it actually the furthest point from the center of the Earth at 6,800 feet [2,072 meters]. It’s all about your perspective. Speaking of perspective. To put the above into perspective, Olympus Mons (the planet Mars) dwarfs them all at 72,000 ft [22,946 m].