Geological Survey.įor those of you who keep posting about this mountain near Guam being 37,000 ft because it sits next to the Marianas Trench you don't know what you're talking about. Mauna Loa: 56,000 feet Mauna Kea: 32,808 feet Haleakala: 29,703 feet Everest, from the plateau which it sits on is 29,035 feet. Hawaii has the top three tallest mountains in the world:Īnd we are measuring from the ocean floor, the same way you measure yourself, from the floor. If you were to lift Mauna Loa, not Mauna Kea from the ocean floor and place it next to Everest, then Mount Everest would complain of a stiff neck the next morning. When you measure a mountain, you measure from the bottom (ocean floor) like a human, from the feet. Now, if you're six feet tall and stand in water that's four feet deep, and on shore you have a five foot person standing on land, yes, the five foot person looks taller, but lift the person in the water and he becomes taller. When you measure yourself, do you start from your feet or your knees? That's what I thought. Here's the real fact: Measuring a mountain is the same as you measure a person. Nanga Parbat drops 23,000 feet in about the same distance Denali drops 18000 feet. Rakaposhi has a larger vertical relief from its base to summit, and in a much shorter distance, than Denali or St. It sounds like it would be on par with Mckinley, the difference being that Gonga's top 2km are snow covered. That angle is even more impressive than Everest, according to the climbing group's website I just looked at.
Mount Gonga in China is 7556m above sea level (41st highest in world) and the base 1 plateau is only about 2000mm so you are viewing 5500m of mountain at a distance of just 20km. Does anyone know the name of the third 'highest mountain'? And suffers from peripheral neuropathy in the other direction.
Mean sea level refers to the differences caused by the spin of the earth which, like a middle aged man, has a pot belly and is a bit thin on top. Isaac Asimov pointed out that Everest is the highest from mean sea level, Mauna Loa from its base, and an unremembered name of an Andean peak from the actual average of high and low tides at its own latitude. I have read most of the posts here (up to post 62) and have seen no reference to the mean sea level, which is by no means the same as the actual sea levels at the latitudes of all the mountains measured from the sea's surface. If you can remain on your feet while courageously longboarding down the mind altering 43.6m from the peak roundabout at the campsite, you're doing something well. Mount Maranui Estate in the Western region of Waihi Beach on the east coast of New Zealand has a peak of roughly 43.6m.