Question 3: the correct answer is Everest. Got it right? Score 1 point.
Question 4 of 10
What is the largest country in the world by area?
Why, in question 3: What is the highest mountain above sea level?
The answer is Everest, at 8,848.86 meters above sea level, according to the measurement made by China and Nepal in 2020. K2, in second place, is about 8,600 meters, and Aconcagua, in the Andes, is the highest in the Americas.
The roof of the world
Everest lies in the Himalayan range, on the border between Nepal and China. The range formed from the collision of the Indian and Asian plates, which began about 50 million years ago.
At the top, the air has about a third of the oxygen available at sea level. That is why most climbers use oxygen cylinders, and the body takes weeks to acclimatize at the camps.
The first confirmed ascent to the summit was in 1953, by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Tenzing Norgay.
Near the summit there are fossils of marine animals, in rocks that were once the seafloor, before being pushed upward by the collision of the plates.
