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

[rik.dillen at skynet.be]

I think that the highest mountain on earth is the Mauna Loa volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii: from its base (that is situated deep under sea level) to the top it measures 9170 m, taller than Mt. Everest. 
See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauna_Loa

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Grts,

Rik Dillen
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Subject: [Rockhounds] Is Mount Everest really the tallest mountain on Earth?

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
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