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7 facts about Mount Everest that surprise almost everyone

Its summit was once an ocean floor. It grows every year. And it's still rising. Here are the facts about the world's highest mountain that most…

By Laxman Rawal · Jun 17, 2026

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Everyone knows Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. Almost everything else people "know" about it is more surprising than they expect — starting with the fact that its summit was once at the bottom of an ocean. Here are seven facts that make standing in…

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The surprises

The seabed-to-summit story is real: the top of Everest is made of limestone laid down underwater, lifted nearly nine kilometres into the sky by the collision of India and Asia — and that collision is ongoing, so the mountain is still growing. Above 8,000m…

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