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Mount Everest

Mount Everest
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About Mount Everest

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its summit. Its height was most recently measured in 2020 by Chinese and Nepali authorities as 8,848.86 m.

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In his 40s he skied down Mount Everest with a parachute on his back so he could slow himself down.

from No Such Thing As A 'Waiting For Godot' Action Figure, 2022-01-07 at 00:07:13 · read transcript

Other times Mount Everest came up

  1. This is the thing it would take so long because there are so many thousands of peaks. Yeah. I'm surprised that Chimborazo is not seen to be... So Mount Chimborazo, this is in Ecuador, is the highest point on Earth. It's 2.4 kilometers higher than Mount Everest because of the shape of the Earth. It's further from the center of the Earth. Exactly. Because the Earth bulges a bit around the equation.

    No Such Thing As A Speared Shrimp, 2016-04-15 · listen

  2. Disappointingly small. Yeah. Very big for a bacterian. Tiny pizza. Tiny, yeah. Waiter, there's a hair in my beta. Actually. Don't shout everyone. Apparently it's the equivalent of us meeting a human being who's as tall as Mount Everest. What? That's how big it is in comparison to not a normal bacteria. To a normal bacteria. Right. Isn't that? I mean... Crazy. That's funny in the clean room when you go, hide.

    No Such Thing As Lily Allen In The Hellespont, 2025-11-20 · listen

  3. Disappointingly small. Yeah. Very big for a bacterium. Tiny pizza. Tiny, yeah. Waiter, there's a hair in my beta. Actually. Don't tell everyone. Apparently it's the equivalent of us meeting a human being who's as tall Mount Everest. What? That's how big it is in comparison to a normal bacteria. To a normal bacteria. Right. Isn't that? Crazy. That's funny in the clean room when you go, hide.

    610: No Such Thing As Lily Allen In The Hellespont, 2025-11-20 · listen

  4. This is the thing that would take so long because there are so many thousands of peaks. Yeah. I'm surprised that Chimborazu is not seen to be... So Mount Chimborazu is an Ecuador, is the highest point on earth. It's 2.4 kilometers higher than Mount Everest because of the shape of the earth. It's further from the centre of the earth. Exactly. Because the earth bulges a bit around the equator.

    109: No Such Thing As A Speared Shrimp, 2016-04-15 · listen

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