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Mount Everest 29er*

Mount Everest is Earth's highest mountain above sea level at 29,032 ft — the crown jewel of human mountaineering. But it makes this list with an asterisk: measured base-to-summit, the way every other peak here is, Everest rises only ~12,000–15,000 ft from its base on the Tibetan Plateau and wouldn't qualify as a 29er at all. It is here on sea-level fame alone — out-topped from base to peak by two ocean-rooted Hawaiian volcanoes, and dwarfed by a tilted block of crust on a moon of Jupiter.

* Mount Everest is listed by its 29,032 ft elevation above sea level — the number that made it famous as Earth’s highest peak. Measured base-to-summit like every other mountain here, Everest rises only ~12,000–15,000 ft from its base on the Tibetan Plateau and wouldn’t qualify as a 29er at all. Earth’s real base-to-peak giants are the Hawaiian volcanoes Mauna Kea (33,500 ft) and Mauna Loa (30,085 ft). The world’s most famous mountain makes this list on a technicality.

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Mount Everest rising above the Nuptse–Lhotse ridge, from a Drukair flight (shrimpo1967 / PLW2, CC BY-SA 2.0)
Mount Everest
Quick facts
  • Listed by its 29,032 ft elevation above sea level — not base-to-peak, so it wears an asterisk here
  • Its true base-to-summit relief is only ~12,000–15,000 ft, short of the 29,000 ft bar
  • First summited in 1953 by Hillary and Tenzing Norgay
  • Out-topped base-to-peak by both Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa
  • Even Mars's third-string volcanoes look down on it

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