Mount Everest isn’t really the world’s tallest mountain

Sir Edmund Hillary was the first person to reach the top of Mount Everest in 1953. Since then, thousands of people have tried to reach the dangerous top of the mountain.

In fact, so many people try it every year that this beautiful part of the Himalayas is slowly becoming a pile of trash.

Everest is well-known because it is called the “highest mountain in the world.” However, science says that this is not true.

Yes, Chimborazo, a stratovolcano in Ecuador that is part of the Andes mountain range, is the highest mountain in the world. It is the farthest point from the center of the Earth, so it is the highest mountain in terms of distance.

Eli Rosenberg of The New York Times says that Chimborazo’s peak is 20,500 feet (6,248 meters) above sea level, which is 8,529 feet (2,600 meters) shorter than Everest. However, if you measure from the center of the Earth, everything changes.

Since Earth isn’t flat (sorry, B.o.B. ), it bulges out at the equator and flattens out near the poles.

This means that mountains near the equator are technically higher than mountains in other places. Chimborazo is almost right in the middle of our planet, while Everest is 28 degrees north.

So how much more does it go up? Well, one report says that Everest is 3,965 miles (6,382 kilometers) from the center of the Earth.

Chimborazo, on the other hand, is 3,967 miles long (6,384 kilometres). Even though the difference is only 2 miles (3.2 km), it means everything when it comes to who is tallest.

In fact, those 2 miles are enough to put Chimborazo at number one and push Everest out of the top 20.

This isn’t exactly news, though, because NPR ran a story about Chimborazo back in 2007. So why does Everest keep getting all the attention while Chimborazo doesn’t get much? Well, it all depends on how difficult the climb is.

Everest is the most difficult mountain to climb, which is what mountain climbers want.

It takes 10 days to get to Everest’s base camp, another 6 weeks to get used to the altitude, and then a tough 9-day climb to the top. Rosenberg says that it takes about two days to climb Chimborazo after getting used to the altitude (which takes about two weeks).

Also, it’s important to say again that, at sea level, Everest is still the tallest mountain.

By that measure, Chimborazo wouldn’t even be the tallest mountain in the Andes. Mount Aconcagua, which is 22,828 feet (6,961 meters) above sea level, holds that title.

So, if you already have plans to climb Everest and put your name next to Sr. Edmund Hillary’s, don’t worry. You will still be climbing the tallest mountain in the world if you measure from sea level. After that, you might as well climb Chimborazo because it will be easy compared to what you just did.