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Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world’s highest peak.

Boise man summited the highest peak in each Jeremy Powell of Boise takes a photo from the top of Thompson Peak. Powell hiked the highest peak in each of the mountain ranges and subranges in Idaho.

Mount Denali, North America’s highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be.

Earlier this week, a French woman died trying to scale the world's third-highest mountain, Kanchenjunga, while British media reported a U.K. climber on the same peak was rescued.

Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world’s highest peak.

Yet, if you measure a mountain from its base to its peak, then the 33,500-foot (10,211-meter) Mauna Kea, an inactive shield volcano on the island of Hawaii, would instead come out on top.