We should start a stack of rocks up at the top. We could get this thing over the 14,510 mark in no time.
Wasn't there a movie like that?
The Englishman Who Went Up A Hill But Came Down A Mountain
Dale's explanation (in partial Greek) about the distance from the center of the Earth reminds me that the Earth is an oblate spheroid,
therefore the 20,564-foot ft equatorial peak Chimborazo is higher than Everest. Depends on what your definition of is is.