# Have there ever been mountains higher than Mt. Everest? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 4, 2005, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-ever-been-mountains-higher-than-mt-everest/292983 "2005-03-04T22:22:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-ever-been-mountains-higher-than-mt-everest/292983/21 "2005-03-06T15:35:45Z")
> [@j\_sum1](#): > > It is not a case of 2.4 inches being scoured off each year. The process is a bit more cataclysmic than that. > Mt Cook/Aoraki, which is New Zealand’s highest point recently had 10 metres slide off the top in a rockfall. THe same could easily happen to Everest and has undoubtedly happened in the past. (Although not in the recorded past.) And I am betting that the day the peak of Everest falls down, it’s gonna make the evening news. Ya know? ## Tris “The New York Stock Exchange, and Mount Everest both hit new lows today, story at 11.” ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-ever-been-mountains-higher-than-mt-everest/292983/22 "2005-03-06T16:09:49Z")
> [@j\_sum1](#): > > THe same could easily happen to Everest and has undoubtedly happened in the past. (Although not in the recorded past.) Of course, the “recorded past” for Everest is very brief in geological terms - only a little over 50 years of direct knowledge of the condition of the summit, and less than 150 years since the first determination of its altitude was made. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-there-ever-been-mountains-higher-than-mt-everest/292983.md?page=1)