My Weird School Fast Facts: Geography by Gutman Dan

Author:Gutman, Dan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-06-21T00:00:00+00:00

Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary

Everest wasn’t conquered until twenty-nine years later, by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

Mount Everest is the highest mountain. But it’s not the tallest mountain.

Huh?

Some mountains are underwater. The tallest mountain on Earth is Mauna Kea, a volcano on the island of Hawaii. The base of Mauna Kea is at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, so the summit only rises 13,796 feet above sea level. But Mauna Kea is 33,000 feet tall, much higher than Mount Everest.

I wonder if Mount Everest is jealous.

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