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It is thought that the summit of Mount Everest started at the bottom of the ancient Tethys Sea, the motion of the Indian sub continental plate and the urasian continental plate colliding, about 30 - 50 million years ago, caused the mountain to rise up and become the highest mountain on the Earth.

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Q: How did the peak of Mt. Everest rise from sea level to 8848 feet?
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Is mount Everest the tallest mountain above see level?

Yes Measured at 29,028 feet (8848 m) above sea level


What is 29035 above sea level?

The peak of Mt. Everest in feet.


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Above sea level, Mt. Everest at 29,028 feet. From base on the seafloor to peak, Mauna Kea at 33,480 feet.Mount Everest is 8848 meters/29029 feet high.


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No. The Himalayas are the highest mountain range in the world, so nothing on Earth is as high as them. The highest peak in the Zagros is Zard Kuh at 4548 metres (14 921 feet), while the highest peak in the Himalays (and the world) is Mt. Everest at 8848 metres (29 029 feet).


What is the highest peak on Everest?

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What is the highest peak at Mount Everest?

The summit at 29.028ft or 8.848m is the highest point on Mount Everest.Another AnswerAccording to Wikipedia, Mt Everest is located in the...:"Solukhumbu District, Sagarmatha Zone, Nepal, Tingri County, Shigatse Prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China, in the Mahalangur Himal, in the Himalayas and has these GPS coordinates at its peak: 27°59'17"N, 86°55'31"E."


How high is the earth highest point?

The earth highest point Mount Everest is 8848 (29,029 feet) meters above the sea level. In 1856, the Great Trigonometric Survey of India established the first published height of Everest, then known as Peak XV, at 29,002 ft (8,840 m). In 1865, Everest was given its official English name by the Royal Geographical Society upon recommendation of Andrew Waugh, the British Surveyor General of India at the time.


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What is the tallest mountain measured from its base to it's peak and not from sea level to its peak?

Mount Everest in India__________Surprisingly it is not Everest. Mauna Kea in Hawaii is considerably taller than Everest measured from its base on the floor of the Pacific to its peak. That measurement is over 10,000 meters (33,000 feet). See link. Amazingly, neither Everest nor Mauna Kea is the highest point on the earth's surface if you measure from the earth's center.


What is the biggest peak of the world?

The Himalayas are the range with the most tall peaks, including Mt. Everest (Chomolungma - Goddess Mother of the World, in Tibetan), which is the world's tallest mountain peak above sea level, at 29,034 feet. The actual tallest peak, measured from its base, is Mauna Kea on the Big Island of Hawaii, which measures over 33,000 feet from its base at the bottom of the Pacific to its peak 13,796 above sea level.


What is the height of the tallest mountain peak on earth?

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 8,850 meters (29,035 feet) above sea level. No other mountain on Earth has a higher altitude.


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