What was the highest mountain peak before Mt. Everest was discovered?
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Joe-Speedy
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From various sources on the net. Mount Kangchenjunga (1847) was the highest mountain known until the discovery of Everest. It is located in Northeast Nepal. Its Tibetan name Gangchhendzonga, means "Five treasures of the snows," Everest was discovered in 1852. Mount Godwin-Austen in N Kasmnir on the China/Pakistan border was discovered in 1856. Mountains are usually measured from sea level so Mt. Everest would have the highest peak. The official height of Mount Everest is 29,035 feet or 8,850 meters. Hawaii's Mauna Kea, though, rises an astonishing 33,476 feet (10,203 meters) from the depths of the Pacific Ocean floor. Measuring from base to peak, Mauna Kea is the tallest mountain on earth.
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A number of mountains that were not included in the British Himalayan Survey were rumored to exceed 30,000'/9000 m in height even after the approximate height of Everest was determined. One of these is Minya Konka [G˜ngga Shan], a 24,783'/7556 m isolated peak in South China. It was first climbed in 1932 and barometric observations demonstrated that it fell far short of the Himalayan peaks. Burdsall et al., "Men Against the Clouds".
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Everest is the highest mountain from Sea Level, but due to the world not being a true sphere and bulging slightly at the Equator, the peak of Chimborazo in Ecuador is about 2100 metres further from the world's exact centre than that of the former.
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Mt. Everest.
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Mt Everest...it was still there, despite the fact it hadn't been discovered.
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Mount Everest
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Mt. Olympus
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Mt Everest's discovery did not change much. I heard there were very high mountain peaks on Mars... For instance, Olympus Mons is 21,171 m high. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mountains_on_Mars_by_height (but it is not necessarily the highest in the Universe)
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Everest
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Everest. Just because it wasn't discovered, doesn't mean it wasn't the highest.
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Mount Everest was still the tallest mountain, humans just didn't know it yet.
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Although Mount Everest, at 29,029 feet tall, is often called the tallest mountain; Mauna Kea, an inactive volcano on the island of Hawaii is actually taller. Only 13,796 feet of Mauna Kea stands above sea level, however, if you measure it from its base, which is below sea level, it is 33,465 feet. If you stand Mauna Kea and Mount Everest next to each other, Mount Kea would be 4400 feet taller
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Dolly Parton laying down...
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Trick question. Everest was still the highest mountain, even before it was declared so.
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Hawaii. Measure it from the bottom, which is the ocean floor, it is still the tallest.
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It was already Mount Everest, they just did not know it.
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Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations made by the British Great Trigonometric Survey in 1849 came to the conclusion that Mount Everest (known as Peak XV at the time) was the highest and Kangchenjunga the third-highest http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanchenjunga The first detailed surveys of the Himalayan peaks by the Survey of India began in 1847, on the initative of the new Superintendant, Colonel Andrew Waugh. In those years, the trigonometrical campaigns were complicated and laborious, because the surveyors could study the peaks only from great distances. Being denied access, in fact, obliged the British military to place their measuring instruments as far as 250 kilometers from the mountains. It was hard work in those conditions, even more because, due to the monsoons, the surveying teams could count on good visibility only from October to December. In autumn of 1847, Waugh was dealing with the measurement of Kangchenjunga, until then considered the highest mountain in the world. http://www.sbg.ac.at/mat/staff/revers/mallory105.html
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'was discovered' lol?! It's in Asia, one of the first places to be civilized... It's a MASSIVE mountain, it's impossible to miss for about a 100km (probably more I have no idea) radius of the damn thing. I don't think it was ever discovered, just conquered. It was just hangin' around until then. But hey, I could be totally wrong too.
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the answer to the riddle is that it was the highest point on Earth even before it was discovered. being discovered didn't make it any higher.
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Mount Everest
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idk
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Mt.
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Mt. Everest. It's the highest point on Earth, whether it was discovered or not.
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Mount Everest was – we just didn’t know it back then.
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I heard on either the Discovery or National Geo channel, that there might have been a peak over 30,000 feet tall in what is now the Hudson Highlands (NY state), on the supercontinent Pangea (about 250 million years ago).
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Mt Everest it hadn't been discovered yet.
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I allways wondered what happened to Arrarat that Noah stranded on..... +4
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Mt. Everest was ALWAYS the highest peak. Even before it was 'discovered'.
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