Why aren’t there mountains that are 10 or 15 miles high on Earth?

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Mt Everest is just under 5.5miles high. Olympus Mons on Mars is 16 miles high. Why aren’t there much larger mountains on Earth? What’s the highest a mountain can go on Earth?

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We do.

Mount Everest is around 12 miles high. It’s just that the lower half is hidden by the ocean, which Mars doesn’t have.

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