[Rockhounds] Is Mount Everest really the tallest mountain on Earth?

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

It's no secret that Mount Everest, the jewel in Nepal's Himalayan crown, is
the world's premier mountain. It's one of those facts embedded in
childhood, like knowing that Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on
the *moon* <https://www.livescience.com/earths-moon.html> or that *blue
whales* <https://www.livescience.com/64459-blue-whale.html> are the largest
animals ever to have lived.

You may be surprised to hear, then, that other peaks could conceivably be
considered *Earth's* <https://www.livescience.com/earth.html> tallest; it
just depends how you measure them.

So, judging by different parameters — including tallest by altitude,
tallest from base to top and tallest based on being the farthest point from
Earth's center — what is the tallest mountain in the world?

https://www.livescience.com/tallest-mountain-on-earth