Earth Facts

Good morning Monday, time for some facts about Earth for this week, and this week we are looking at mountains.

There are 1,187,049 mountains on Earth

Mount Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth above sea level, however, if measured from the centre of the Earth it wouldn’t even be in the top 20. Why? Well the Earth isn’t a perfect sphere it is slightly squashed and bulges out in the middle

The oldest person to climb Everest was Yuichiro Miura from Japan who was 80 years old at the time.

The highest unclimbed mountain is Gaqngkhar Puensum in Bhutan which is the 40th highest mountain in the world.

Chimborazo which is in Ecuador is actually the highest mountain in the world and the closest to space, when measured from the centre of the Earth because of the shape of the planet.

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