The Mariana Trench is the deepest known part of the Earth’s oceanic crust, located near the Western Pacific Ocean. The Mariana Trench is sometimes called the Grand Canyon of the Sea, and measures an impressive 1,580 miles long, 43 miles wide and an incredible 6.6 miles deep.In comparison, Mount Everest is the highest mountain on Earth measuring 5.5 miles above sea level. So the answer to the question is a clear no – Mount Everest definitely cannot fit inside the Mariana Trench.To provide some context for why this is the case, it is important to understand the differences in scale between the two features. Mount Everest is a landform that was formed from the collision of two tectonic plates. Over millions of years, these plates have pushed up the land out of the Earth’s crust to create the Himalayan mountain range that includes Mount Everest.
On the other hand, the Mariana Trench is located in the ocean and was formed as a result of two of Earth’s tectonic plates moving away from each other. This led to a depression in the Earth’s crust which filled with deep ocean water to create the Mariana Trench.Because of this, the scale between the two features is simply too great to compare. Not only is Mount Everest the highest landform on Earth, it is also far smaller than the vast expanse of the Mariana Trench which is several hundred miles long and 6.6 miles deep.Even if Mount Everest was cut up into thousands of tiny pieces, it still would not be enough to fill up the Mariana Trench, let alone fit inside it. So to put it simply, no, Mount Everest cannot fit inside the Mariana Trench.
