Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me

where the top is, but where exactly is the bottom of a mountain? For example, some argue that Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania—at 19,340 feet—is taller than Everest because it rises straight out of the African plain, whereas Everest is merely one of many peaks topping the enormous base of the Himalayas, shared by the world’s next thirteen highest mountains. Others claim that the most logical measure ought to be the distance of a mountain’s peak from the center of the Earth. Because the Earth is a flattened

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