Mt. Everest. It doesn't matter if it was discovered or not. It was still the tallest mountain. -Aura :)
thousands of years before Columbus discovered America (go to answers.com)
Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations based on various readings and measurements made by the Great Trigonometric Survey of India in 1849 came to the conclusion that Mount Everest, known as Peak XV at the time, was the highest.
The laws of gravity as expressed by Sir Issac Newton were determined before Dr. Louis Pasteur discovered penicillin.
My great uncle Leo Might, my grandma still has a flyer which shows the tallest and shortest marines in World War 2. Her brother was the tallest. Ship captains heard of him before he would board ships and they would come to meet him due to his reputation in size.
Rubber and a number of its uses had already been discovered in the Americas by the native populations long before their countries were colonized. So datewise the only thing we know for sure is that it was discovered (long) before 1492.
mt everest
it was nothing!!! MT. EVEREST WAS STILL THE HIGHEST...JUST NOT DISCOVERED YET!
It was still Mount Everest. Mount Everest is in Asia, in the Old World, and so was not recently discovered by Europeans.
k2 is the mountain
Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world standing at 8,586m or 28,169ft high.
Until 1852, Kangchenjunga was assumed to be the highest mountain in the world, but calculations based on various readings and measurements made by the Great Trigonometric Survey of India in 1849 came to the conclusion that Mount Everest, known as Peak XV at the time, was the highest.
Mount Everest was the highest mountain regardless of whether it was discovered or not. Due to tectonic movements, Mount Everest was growing since the dawn of humanity some 2-4 million years ago. Before that it is possible that Everest wasn't the highest mountain, but since there aren't any records stating height of mountains, then we could technically say that Everest has always been the highest mountain regardless of whether humans or their descendants named a higher mountain.
The tallest mountain in the world is Mount Everest at 29,028 feet. It was first climbed by Sir Edmund Hilary in May 1953.
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The highest mountain before Mount Everest is Kangchenjunga, located in the Himalayas on the border of Nepal and India. Kangchenjunga has an elevation of 8,586 meters (28,169 feet) and is the third highest peak in the world.
K2, also known as Chhogori/Qogir, Ketu/Kechu, and Mount Godwin-Austen, is the second highest mountain in the world at 8,611 metres (28,251 ft), after Mount Everest. It is located on the border between Baltistan, in the Gilgit-Baltistan region of northern Pakistan.
they tryed to climb it before the north and south poles