eli5 Is Mt. Everest the tallest mountain relatively?

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By this I mean a mountain that starts at sea level and goes to 10,000ft will be higher relatively than a mountain that starts at 7,000 feet and goes to 10,000 thousand.

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Mauna Kea, when you consider the base underwater, but the cool tidbit is Mt Whitney is nearly 15,000 feet above sea level and it’s only 90 miles from Death Valley, where it drops to a couple hundred feet below sea level. Lowest and highest points in the lower 48 cheek by jowl, as it were.

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