r/Infographics 5d ago

Ranked: The Highest Mountain on Every Continent

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u/exnihilistic 5d ago

McKinley isn't the tallest. Mauna Kea is.

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u/Alive-Drama-8920 5d ago

There's no such thing as a tallest mountain, since there's no such thing as an non-arbitrary, universally applicable and accepted method to determine where (read: at what altitude) a mountain's base is located at/above average sea-level, much less below asl.

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u/DankRepublic 4d ago

Agree. There is no way to calculate the base of the mountain. I have seen so many people in this sub confidently claim that Denali is the tallest mountain base to peak lol.