Majestic Mount Everest: What to Know About the World’s Tallest Mountain
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on the planet. Outstanding as that is, there is plenty more to understand about Everest. Consider this for a minute: The top of the mountain is covered with limestone that, a couple of hundred million years back, was on the flooring of the ocean. "It's an impressive example of how vibrant the world is over geologic time," states Sean Gallen, an Earth researcher at Colorado State University who research studies, to name a few things, how mountains are formed.And after that there's the pure splendour of Everest. Baker Perry is a climatologist who studies how environment modification impacts the mountain and whatever downstream. This is how he explains being atop Mount Everest: "It's the edge of the world. You seem like you can connect and touch the stars...