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  2. Mariana Trench - Wikipedia

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    The maximum known depth is 10,984 ± 25 metres (36,037 ± 82 ft; 6,006 ± 14 fathoms; 6.825 ± 0.016 mi) at the southern end of a small slot-shaped valley in its floor known as the Challenger Deep. [1] The deepest point of the trench is more than 2 km (1.2 mi) farther from sea level than the peak of Mount Everest. [a]

  3. Mariana Trench Marine National Monument - Wikipedia

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    The Challenger Deep, located just outside the Trench Unit, is the deepest point in the Earth's oceans, deeper than the height of Mount Everest above sea level. It is five times longer than the Grand Canyon and includes some 78,956 square miles (204,500 km 2) of virtually unexplored underwater terrain.

  4. Mount Everest - Wikipedia

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    The closest sea to Mount Everest's summit is the Bay of Bengal, almost 700 km (430 mi) away. To approximate a climb of the entire height of Mount Everest, one would need to start from this coastline, a feat accomplished by Tim Macartney-Snape's team in 1990. Climbers usually begin their ascent from base camps above 5,000 m (16,404 ft).

  5. Where is Mount Everest located? Country, height, Nims Purja ...

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  6. Geneva Spur - Wikipedia

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    The Geneva Spur, named Eperon des Genevois [2] and has also been called the Saddle Rib [3] is a geological feature on Mount Everest—it is a large rock buttress near the summits of Everest and Lhotse. [4] [5] The Geneva spur is above Camp III and the Yellow Band, but before Camp IV and South Col. [4] It is a spur [6] near the south col.

  7. Why Everest, the world's tallest mountain, is growing ... - AOL

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    Mount Everest is astoundingly tall at 29,032 feet above sea level, besting its Himalayan neighbors by hundreds of feet. But the world’s tallest peak is still growing, scientists say, thanks in ...

  8. Scientists explain Mount Everest's anomalous growth - AOL

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    Mount Everest is Earth's tallest mountain - towering 5.5 miles (8.85 km) above sea level - and is actually still growing. While it and the rest of the Himalayas are continuing an inexorable uplift ...

  9. Topographic prominence - Wikipedia

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    The parent peak may be either close or far from the subject peak. The summit of Mount Everest is the parent peak of Aconcagua in Argentina at a distance of 17,755 km (11,032 miles), as well as the parent of the South Summit of Mount Everest at a distance of 360 m (1200 feet). The key col may also be close to the subject peak or far from it.