What's The Tallest Mountain In The World!? - Myths Debunked

Everyone knows that Mount Everest is the biggest mountain on Earth, right? Except that’s not strictly true. Everything you learned as a kid is a lie!

Find out the truth about the world's biggest peaks with Debunked.

[DebunkedOfficial]

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[kvnsmlyahoo]

SERIOUSLY! Mount Everest is the HIGHEST mountain. Mauna Kea is the TALLEST. Highest and tallest have different meanings. A two meter tall person standing at sea level is NOT higher than a one meter tall person standing on Mount Everest - he's taller but he's not higher. Also your claim about Chimborazo being closer to space is completely inaccurate as the atmosphere bulges with the earth. Being further from the center of the earth doesn't mean you're closer to space - it just means you're further from the center. To get to space you have more atmosphere to go through standing on Chimborazo than you do standing on Mount Everest thus Mount Everest is closer to space.

[Jukraa]

The Nanga Parbat is actually the highest visible mountain on the earth. This mountain has "just" a high of 8126m, but instead of Mt Everest the lowest valley (Indus Valley) is about 1000m high while the surrounding valleys at Mt Everest are approximately 5000m high, so the Nanga Parpat looks way taller. It also has the tallest face in the world, the Rupal face with 4600m straight elevation. Pretty impressive imo

[theanti-christ]

Mt Everest has the highest altitude can we all just agree?

[ffggddss]

"Everything you learned as a kid is a lie!" Well, no, they told us that Mt. Everest stands highest above (mean) sea level. And that's true. They even gave us the height.
Yet it's true that there are other ways to define "highest, " and Chimborazo in Ecuador, 6263 m, is farthest from Earth's center, which, at 1º 28' S gives it most of Earth's equatorial bulge.
Meanwhile, Mauna Kea is highest from "base to peak, " with a base that's very deep below sea level.

But there's actually a 4th way to define tallest/highest, with yet another winning entry: "Farthest from Earth's rotation axis, " which is where on the ground the gravity is weakest.
That title is held by Mt. Kenya, which, at 5199 m, but even nearer the equator (0º 9' S) than Chimborazo, puts it farther from the axis, yet not as far from the center as Chimborazo.

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[Nathan-dxue]

i love how Mt Denali was not mentioned... Mt denial is much taller than Everest base to peak

[anch]

Even Mt. Everest is 8848m "above sea level" without the portion of the landmass that lies beneath the sea level!

[jakealter]

Mauna Kea is actually even taller, it’s so big that it actually depresses the ocean floor by around 6 kilometers (as does Mauna Loa which is only a little smaller than Mauna Kea) meaning that it’s more than 17, 170 meters tall (Mauna Loa is around 17, 170 meters in height)

[hellolol]

You don't know how much under sea level goes mt Everest

[geonerd]

Derp. Even if you removed most of the ocean, Everest will still be higher than Hawaii relative to the new sea level.

[patrickalpha]

... "a little known stratovolcano named Chimborasso ..."



Little known to the author maybe, but actually Chimborasso is a world-famous mountain. Many people know its name. I think it was once even thought to be the highest mountain in the world.

[amitnandi]

This video is for them who want to satisfy themselves by saying their 'Cat is actually Cheetah'😂😂.

[aldronb]

I wonder if we could dig at the base of Mount Everest to find the root of the rock and add that to its current height.

[piyusgurung]

The number of people from my country butt hurt without even watching the video properly is amazing lol

[Tsnore]

Then again there is mountain prominence which is what matters to the naked eye when viewing massive orogenies from afar.

[charliesexton]

I hate to spoil your lie, but this video is titled the "Highest" mountain in the world, not the tallest. Mt. Everest goes up higher, even though mauna kea is taller

[loveyounepal]

Mount everest is world no.1 peak highest/tallest mountain in the world. Mt. Everest, which stands at 8, 850 meters (29, 035 feet) above sea level, undeniably has the “highest altitude” in the world. The distinction for the tallest mountain in the word, however, belongs to Mauna Kea which has an altitude of only 4, 205 meters (13, 796 feet).

[potato_caitlyn]

Them: the earth is actually an oval shape-

Me: my life is a lie

[sunnyjoseph]

On a clear day, you can see Mount Everest from plains of Nepal ( 200 - 100 metres). So basically you're seeing more than 8 km into the sky. Everest is still an wonder.

[jul]

Fake. Mt everest is the tallest is the earth but which one is talller? FREAKING OLYPUS MONS