{"id":4642,"date":"2025-04-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/wildwire\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:59:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:59:31","slug":"the-tallest-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/omg_animals\/the-tallest-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tallest Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mount Kilimanjaro, in northeastern Tanzania, is the world\u2019s tallest free-standing mountain, rising 4,600 metres from its base into the sky. It&#8217;s special because it&#8217;s not part of a mountain range like most other tall mountains &#8211; instead, it&#8217;s a dormant &#8220;stratovolcano.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This helps make it stand out from Mount Everest, which is part of the Himalayan mountain range.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4534 aligncenter\" title=\"mt_kilimanjaro_zebra\" src=\"\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar.jpg\" alt=\"mt kilimanjaro zebra\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are off to Tanzania to measure the highest peak<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,409,931],"tags":[288,289,102],"class_list":{"0":"post-4642","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-omg_animals","8":"category-omg-facts","9":"category-all","10":"tag-highest","11":"tag-mountain","12":"tag-tanzania"},"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":606054,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4642\/revisions\/606054"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/CA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}