By contrast, thetallest mountainon Earth (measured from base to peak) is Mauna Kea (“White Mountain”) on the island of Hawaii, USA, at approximately 10,205 m (33,480 ft) from seabed to summit; more than half of Mauna Kea lies underwater. Thefirst people to reach the summit of Eve...
"Years with such low percentages of up days unsurprisingly normally do end underwater, with only 1982 managing a positive return after so few up days," analyst George Smith wrote in a Wednesday note. The percentage of up days this year is the lowest the index has seen since 1974, when th...
aJebel Shams is Oman’s highest peak, and at around 10,000 feet (or 3,000 meters) it makes a cool contrast to the baking coast. The regular road runs out about two-thirds the way up, so from there on in it’s 4-wheel-drive or, for the adventurous, hiking. Either...
The median price of single-family houses sold, having apparently hit some kind of ceiling last year, fell to $400,600 in February, down about 7% from the peak in November 2021 ($430,300), having now bounced up and down in the same range since July 2021 ($406,000). This whittled d...
By contrast, the tallest mountain on Earth (measured from base to peak) is Mauna Kea (“White Mountain”) on the island of Hawaii, USA, at approximately 10,205 m (33,480 ft) from seabed to summit; more than half of Mauna Kea lies underwater. The first people to reach the summit ...