{"id":603837,"date":"2025-04-18T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/?p=603837"},"modified":"2025-03-11T08:58:48","modified_gmt":"2025-03-11T12:58:48","slug":"the-tallest-mountain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/omg-facts\/the-tallest-mountain\/","title":{"rendered":"The Tallest Mountain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<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\n\n\n<p>This helps make it stand out from Mount Everest, which is part of the Himalayan mountain range.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" src=\"\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-603838\" title=\"mt_kilimanjaro_zebra\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar-1-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt_kilimanjaro_zebar-1-630x420.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are off to Tanzania to measure the highest peak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136598,"featured_media":603838,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[931,457,409],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-603837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all","8":"category-omg-places","9":"category-omg-facts"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136598"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":603839,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603837\/revisions\/603839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/603838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthrangers.com\/EN\/US\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}