Before Mount Everest...............

@hbmavuri (254)
India
December 26, 2006 2:38am CST
Before Mount Everest was discovered, what was the highest mountain on earth?
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sudhajan
@sudhajan (1219)
• France
26 Dec 06
hey again tricky question.this time i got it. Mount Everest, it just hadn't been discovered! Am i correct?
hbmavuri
@hbmavuri (254)
• India
27 Dec 06
correct.and congratulations
gscs1838
@gscs1838 (1536)
• Malaysia
26 Dec 06
it is k2 or mount G\godwin-austen 28,250 ft (8,611 m) high in the karakorum range, Nn kashmir, on the china-pakistan border
hbmavuri
@hbmavuri (254)
• India
27 Dec 06
mount everest( it just hadn't been discovered)
James72
@James72 (26790)
• Australia
26 Dec 06
It was still Mount Everest! But it was then known as Mt Qomolangma which is its Tibetan name.... Maybe we should start calling it that also? Much the same as Ayers Rock in Australia is now called by its Aboriginal name Uluru.....
hbmavuri
@hbmavuri (254)
• India
27 Dec 06
its mount everest itself (it just hadn't been discovered)