Although a mountain could theoretically grow taller than Mount Everest, forces like gravity and erosion work against it.
Sixty million years ago, when the Eurasian plate slammed into the Indian plate, a mountain range was born. Because these plates were of similar density, neither could sink below the other. The rocks had nowhere to go but up.
Earth scientists refer to glacial erosion as"the glacial buzzsaw because they are so effective at taking the sides off of mountains," Humphreys said."[Glacial erosion] creates a steep-sided mountain that is then prone to landsliding." This volcanic process is exactly how the solar system's tallest mountain, Mars' Olympus Mons, formed. Towering 16 miles , Olympus Mons is so tall that it actually pokes through the top of the Red Planet's atmosphere, Briony Horgan , a planetary scientist at Purdue University in Indiana, told Live Science.
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