View The Mountain Taller Than Everest Gif. Of course there are taller mountains than the everest. Mount everest, along with the rest of the himalayan mountains, is relatively young in geological terms at no more than 60 million years old, so before giant mount everest is still growing and shaking.
The himalayas house eight of the over 8,000 meter (26,246 foot) peaks.
The new measurement makes everest 86 centimetres higher than nepal's previous height, and more than four metres higher than china's previous measurement. Although everest's original tibetan name is chomolangma, the mountain was given its official english name in 1865 by andrew waugh. Anyway, back to the topic of this article: The base of mauna kea is about 6000 meters below sea level, and the summit is about 4000 meters above sea level.