🏔️ Tallest Mountain: Mount Everest
3rd Grade 🏆 World Records
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain above sea level: 29,032 feet — about 5.5 miles high.
Where it is
Everest is in the Himalayas, on the border between Nepal and China (Tibet).
First to the top
Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from Nepal, first reached the top on May 29, 1953. The air at the top has only about a third of the oxygen at sea level.
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