But earthquakes can reduce their height in an instant.
37+ Mount Everest Height In Meters Images. Prakash mathema/afp via getty images hide caption. Mount everest—also known as sagarmatha or chomolungma—is the highest mountain on earth, as measured by the height of its summit above sea level.
Mount everest is the world's highest peak standing tall at an elevation of 8848m/29,035 ft above sea level.
As technology improves, different surveying techniques keep producing different results for the literal height of mount everest. But for mount everest and other high mountains, there are some other complications. Has it lost a few meters of snow cover due to global warming? Mount everest is the world's highest peak measuring just over 29,000 feet in height.
