As you grow older you realise that one plus one is not two!
Our textbooks are full of facts which can be questioned! They are full of great people with questionable characters and finally there are actually just an iota of actual truth or fact between a veritable mountain of exaggeration!
Talking about Mountains; everyone knows about the tallest one in the world! Mount Everest stands tall! But if you measure the height from the floor to the top then there are two contenders!
Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth (at least on land!) stands just 5.5 miles high! But the actual tallest mountain when measured from base to peak, is Hawaii’s Mauna Kea, which originates at the bottom of the ocean, is far taller than Everest, at about 33,500 feet (10,210 meters).
Of course measured from sea level, Mauna Kea reaches only about 13,800 feet (4,200 meters)!
Just when Mauna was rejoicing, comes the actual tallest mountain in the Solar System!
The highest mountain and volcano in the Solar System is on the planet Mars.!
It is called Olympus Mons and is 16 miles (24 kilometers) high which makes it about three times higher than Mt. Everest! Imagine that!
In addition to being very tall, it is also very wide (340 miles or 550 kilometers) and covers an area larger than the entire chain of Hawaiian islands. Olympus Mons is a very flat mountain which slopes by only 2 to 5 degrees. It is a shield volcano built up by eruptions of lava.
As described in this Novel by Ellis Silver, apparently Mars once had several active volcanoes, but they’re all extinct now!
The crust and mantle have become too thick for molten rock to break through from the core. And this causes them to swell up and reach such heights!
So when even Everest is not the tallest then what’s the fate of the other smaller mountains!
Well, forget Everest (even the name was not its original!); in fact in Nepal it is known as Sagarmatha! Now whatever you call it or whatever be its height or whether it is the tallest in the world or in the universe; it makes no difference to the mountain!
It just stands tall touching the skies or at least reaching for it! Just how Jamshedji Nusserwanji Tata did and how!
Now of course it is the time to Sutnu! Which is sleep in Nepali!
Shubh Ratri!
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