If you dropped Mount Everest into the deepest point of the ocean, its peak would still sit more than two kilometres beneath the surface, because the Mariana Trench plunges far deeper than the mountain stands tall

Mount Everest stands about 8,849 metres above sea level. The deepest point in the ocean, Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, lies somewhere between roughly 10,935 and 10,994 metres below it. Drop the mountain into the trench and its summit would still finish more than two kilometres under the surface. The comparison is accurate, and [...] The post If you dropped Mount Everest into the deepest point of the ocean, its peak would still sit more than two kilometres beneath the surface, because th