Drop Everest into the Mariana Trench
And watch it disappear
The highest mountain
Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth: 8,849 m above sea level, according to the 2020 survey by Nepal and China.
The deepest point
Now fly to the western Pacific and drain the ocean. Challenger Deep, at the southern end of the Mariana Trench, is the deepest known point in the ocean: about 10,935 m below sea level.
Drop it in
Stand Everest on the floor of Challenger Deep and fill the ocean back up. The world's highest mountain vanishes, with about 2 km of water still above its summit.
Pull the plug and watch the sea level fall, explore the seafloor as real terrain, find what lies off your own coast, and follow guided stories, from the Ice Age land bridge between England and France to the wreck of the Titanic. Everything is built from GEBCO's grid of the world's ocean floor and land.
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Stories
- Walk from England to France: Doggerland in the Ice Age
- Asia to America on foot: Beringia, the Ice Age land bridge
- Where the Titanic rests: 3,800 m down in the North Atlantic
- Drop Everest into the Mariana Trench: And watch it disappear
- The longest mountain range on Earth: is underwater: the mid-ocean ridge
Places
- Challenger Deep
- Mid-Atlantic Ridge
- Hawaiian–Emperor seamounts
- Puerto Rico Trench
- Kerguelen Plateau
- Titanic wreck site
- Monterey Canyon
- East Pacific Rise