Mount Everest is the highest above sea level, but Ecuador’s Chimborazo sits farther from Earth’s center, making it the planet’s true “closest point to space”
Published on: Sunday 14 June 2026
Mount Everest still holds the title most of us learned in school. At 29,031.69 feet above sea level, it is the highest mountain on Earth when measured from the ocean’s average surface, but there is ...
