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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
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 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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