Mountains always impressed the human imagination and attracted the proud grandeur and captivating beauty.No one can remain indifferent at the sight of mountain peaks covered with snow caps and blankets wrapped up the clouds.Who saw the mountains, albeit not very high, they will remember for a lifetime.How can anything compare to this splendor?Probably only more high mountains, with even more steep slopes and sliding them snow-white glaciers, peaks with the sharp peaks that stretch up to a bright sun and hidden in the blue abyss of the sky.
grandeur of nature and its creations makes a man think about many things.And not only about their being and life problems, but that surrounds us.Because we know so little about the world!And even that seems a long time ago known, is not so straightforward.For example, the question of what is the highest mountain in the world, many did not hesitate to answer, it's Everest.From school, we know even her height - 8848 meters.We know well and its location - the Himalayas.
And if this is really the case?
The fact is that the values of the height of the mountain depends on how you measure it.If we consider the height above the level of the oceans, of course, it is the highest mountain in the world - Mount Everest, also known as Mount Everest.Many argue that this vertex continues to grow and has already reached its height of 8852 meters.There is another opinion: Qomolangma reduced in size, it seems to be sags in the bowels of the earth, so it has become lower - 8841 meter.But be that as it may, the Everest is considered the most high aerial top of our planet.
But not all so simple.After all, the mountain is not only on land but also underwater.And if you measure the height from the bottom to the top, it turns out that the highest mountain in the world has a "growth" of about 10,000 meters.This giant is a symbol of Hawaii - Mauna Kea.
In the first method of counting the mountain could not even get into the top ten most significant peaks of the world.And with the second method, to 4205 meters above sea level adds hidden in the waters of the Pacific Ocean at a depth of nearly 6,000 meters lower part of the mountain, resulting in a total height, which according to various sources ranging from 9750 to 10205 meters.But still it's much more than that of Everest.After all these calculations the honorary title of "The highest mountain in the world" should be given to Mauna Kea.
Famous stranger
name of the volcano means "White Mountain".Its top is hidden under the ice cap, formed a very long time.Snowy Mountain Hat is constantly updated with the newly fallen snow, sometimes multimeter thickness.Mauna Kea is the centers of modern glaciation, as well as Mount Elbrus - the highest mountain in the Caucasus.
Mauna Kea was born on the ocean floor in that distant time, as a result of numerous volcanic eruptions was the formation of all of the Hawaiian archipelago.Today, the volcano is considered extinct, but its revival - a matter of time, as the process of mountain building in this area of the bottom of the Pacific Ocean continues to the present, and the highest mountain on Earth can still grow.
