VFX Artist Reveals the TRUE SCALE of Mountains 

Olympus Mons is so big that if you were standing at the bottom you couldnt see the top as it would be over the horizon

Science teacher here: Thank you for these type of videos. I use them to engage my students into understanding Earth Science in a more interactive way. It helps them to connect terms and visualize concepts better. The use of technology has become an integral part of education so every tool we can use in a positive way to foment knowledge and discovery is useful.

This "True Scale" series has got to be one of the most underrated things on RU-vid right now. Absolutely stoked every time I see a new episode pop up!

5:30 "its one of the most iconic natural features in the entire country" To be fair Australias list of natural features is basically just: -desert -desert -great barrier reef -desert -desert -oh look at that, more desert -big rock -desert

It's so nostalgic watching this. It's like watching TV in my younger years.

Wren's enthusiasm on these VFX artist reveals, is contagious 🔥

Wren's "VFX used to display scale" series is always my favorite content on this channel

More videos like this please… there’s a whole bunch of us who truly find this very informative and entertaining

The caulking and screen is the best representation of that I have ever seen.

I'd say it's average.

Stellar video. The visualizations do so much in presenting the ideas in an understandable way. They're also gorgeous to look at!

I love these types of videos that Wren does. They are so much fun to watch, and you learn stuff too!

I've been loving these "Wren talks passionately about a specific subject" type videos! They are always amazing at getting information across in a unique and creative way. Amazing video!

I've really enjoyed all the videos on Corridor for years. Wren has always been amazing, but these types of videos he's been doing have made him my new favorite RU-vidr. I'm really looking forward to sharing these videos with my daughter once she's old enough to understand. Thanks Wren.

this was such a well constructed and paced video, really enjoyed!

This series is incredible. The way Wren gives information is amazing

So basically this: Mount Everest is the *highest* mountain on Earth, but not necessarily the tallest.

literally been doing this math for the last month for D&D volcano battles. Super satisfying that this is basically a visual refresher of that month of research and model scaling to 25mm scale and calculating for D&D's interpretation of miles for spells that ignore the limitations of people's natural physical abilities. Great video Wren and team!

These videos from Wren where he uses CGI to explain cool stuff are top tier youtube content. Well done!

Great video idea! I appreciate you taking the time to make all the visual comparisons. Also honorable mention for the caulk screen demo.

I live on Maui and enjoy hiking up Haleakala every few months. To go from farmland to arid desert conditions over the course of a hike is truly exceptional. The West Maui Mountains look like little hills from the peak of Haleakala.

You left out Mount Chimborazo?! Its the farthest from the center of the earth! Its 6800 feet farther from the center than Mount Everest!

Thank you so much for this video! Absolutely love mountains, and this was an awesome watch.

We were always taught in Hawaiʻi that Maunakea is the largest mountain in the world. It’s awesome to see that visually represented.

If you account for Mt Everest's base camp is an arbitrary way to measure 0 such as sea level, and account for the crustal-lithospheric "root" beneath the Himalayas, the height of Mt Everest is ~240 km. Though much of that is entirely within the Earth, it is formed by compression of the Indian sub-continent colliding with the Eurasian continent, folding the crust to form the mountains. This is like making a big heavy ship in the ocean of the mantle, the more ship weighs the more of it has to be underwater to displace material to buoyantly float. Definitely a cool way to look at how these compare to one another,! It's also cool to think about how much crust is beneath some mountains! It can even be enough to affect the strength of gravity depending on the different densities of the rock.

that example of hot spots was perfect, good use of practical effects and vfx to compliment each other. i could see this section being shown in classrooms

These videos w Wren are some of the best knowledge based vids on YT. Keep them up!

Wren´s comparison videos are really insightful and so satisfying to watch

I'm still confused as to why we're using the base camp location as the foot of Everest. The two reasons I saw from the video is that Everest is "standing" on the Himalayan mountain range, and that "base" camp implies that it is the foot of the mountain since it has the word "base" in it. Personally I've always thought that the "base" in base camp referred to "centre of operations" within that area rather than "camp which is at the foot of the mountain". But considering that I might be wrong, I still don't see how the location of a base camp is supposed to denote the line between "part of the Himalayas" and Everest itself (e.g. where the building ends and the foot of the human standing on it begins), as I am not aware of any such geological study that determined where base camp should be. Not to mention the several base camps that Everest has, as well as other comments also pointing out that Everest is part of the Himalayas, so it's not analagous to a human standing on a building, but part of the building itself. The analogy would be more appropriate if sea level was used and if Mount Chimborazo was included in the comparison. However, I guess others might argue that these mountains are part of the Earth's crust itself, and perhaps a more meaningful measure would be "distance to centre of the Earth", although I understand if that might cause some issues with comparing between the different mountains using VFX. Lastly, I was really hoping that Rheasilvia would've gotten a special mention too!

Interesting fact: Measured from the center of the Earth, Chimborazo in Ecuador is the highest mountain on the planet, exceeding the height of Everest by two kilometers. Chimborazo is colloquially known as "the closest point to the Sun."

Wren just always gives a huge ol smile on my face and I thank you for that.

This type of video is how I was introduced to this channel ages ago. Now we watch mostly the React toGood and Bad videos, but I'm so glad these still happen. The visualizations are so interesting.

4:10 I live in Washington State and have been to Rainer and I have to say: Rainer is amazing.

Your Mountain vs the Mountain she tells you not to worry about.

Thanks Wren, keep these up, love them.

I love these videos so much! I can totally see Wren hosting/producing a show on Discovery

Seeing the video title I thought you would do the point farthest from earth's center, also. Mt. Chimborazo

As an Alaskan I’ve been explaining this for years. Thank you so much for this amazing video!

Amazing visual. I learned that stuff in school but had to imagine it in my mind, luckily I could, not everyone can so your visual are super useful! Great video thanks!

I absolutely love that you've made an educational video about something other than CGI. Your presentation skills are so good it translates in to any topic, which is brilliant.

I get the purpose of the video, but it is a bit misleading. Ren isn't truly talking about height, but instead prominence, from surrounding ground to peak. But talking about how high a mountain can be, how should it be measured? From sea level like everest, or prominence like Manu Kea? Or how about how far from Earth's core it is? If we measure from Earth's core then it would be Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. The reason why is because Earth isn't perfectly round, but instead it bulges at the equator making Earth have "little" love handles.

Wren absolutely kills it every time, you should really have your own show by now my dude

Wren, we REALLY need more of these kinds of videos, they're so informative and interesting, make your own channel for this, PLEEEEAAASEEEE✨✨

Does Puget sell to Canada yet?

yet another banger. favorite series on this channel. keep it up man! we all appreciate your time and effort :D

I have been having the exact discussion with friends and family for YEARS! I love that now I have a video to backup my reasoning! ❤😅

This is an interesting topic, but there are a few major flaws with the techniques used in this video. First of all, Mount Everest is measured from base camp, which is not the lowest base of the mountain. Denali and Mount Rainier are measured from their lowest surrounding ridges, which would get a somewhat greater height for Mount Everest (although Denali would still beat it and it would be close with Mount Rainier). Also, what constitutes a mountain's base is somewhat arbitrary, and different measurement techniques could change the order here. For instance, Mount Everest is visible from an elevation of ~3000m at the entrance to Sagarmatha National Park, putting it close to the maximum visible elevation gain for Denali (although few hundred meters shorter still). Elevation above sea level is the only way to measure height in absolute terms, which makes it the most important metric. The biggest problem, though, is that Denali is not the tallest mountain above its base on land. Nanga Parbat, Dhaulagiri I, Annapurna I, Annapurna II, and Kangchenjunga can all be said to rise higher from their respective bases. Nanga Parbat, for instance, rises a full seven kilometers above the Indus River valley, following continuous ridges in a basically identical manner to the method used for Denali here. These mountains are often overlooked, but they are extremely relevant to this particular topic.

Wren should have is own “discovery” channel 😊 Those videos are so well done and educational that they need to be part of the school curriculum. Most students can’t ingest the dry and boring textbooks… With those 3D representations, you can peek their interests👍

Wait until Wren learns that that the sea isn’t level everywhere

Me, while watching older corridor videos: "man, how does wren keep breaking so many bones..?" Wren 5 minutes later: "im standing on a building!"

Great work Wren really enjoyed this one.

Do more of these videos!! These are so fun.

We need more Wrens in this world.

Thank you so much for including all the numbers in meters too

Wrens Videos are Always such a treat

Love your videos, Wren! Would have loved to see shots of the mountains in context as you gave it "twice the height of the altitude airliners fly at" would have been cool to see a VFX shot of the mountain from that vantage point, even with the narrower version of the mountain. Or like flying in between them. It might not be as visually stunning as the zoomed out view but it's a cool VFX shot AND it gives real world context to show the sheer size of it.

Sometimes I forget Wren has done a TedTalk. What a talent

I love the VFX Artist Reveals... It gives me goosebumps.

Why is a digital artist giving me a geology lesson? You might be the single best creator on the platform.

Wren you have done it again! 😊

I am Nepalese and was getting mad but then thought who actually decides where the base camp of a mountain starts. Imagine how long would it take if one had to trek all the from the beaches of India to the top of Everest or even from the lowest point in Nepal

This is something I've been curious for YEARS!!! Another brain itch is scratched thanks to 😊😊Wren

Loved this. Huge love for geology and plate tectonics so this was just a fun watch for me! 😊

5:24 "Ahh... BIG!"

You missed a mention for Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. It is the tallest mountain on Earth in terms of distance from the centre of the earth, due to the equatorial buldge caused by earth's rotation. Over 2000m taller than Everest in this respect!

I already new all of this but it was great to get reference on how big they are next to each other, this is what CGI was created for

I would LOVE purely educational content from you guys done in this format. Your 3d models really help visualize things we simply can't inherently comprehend and it's fantastic!

I mean how do you even define the "bottom" of a mountain? The whole concept kinda falls apart as soon as you try to. You can easily define the highest point on Earth just by seeing how far up into the atmosphere it goes. So Mount Everest is still the tallest mountain in my books

Im begging you. Please create a series not just a youtube series but actual streaming series. The way you elaborate and explain topic is so much fun and incredibly engaging. My nephews are 7 and 8 and by watching youe video they cant stop screaming "I want to see more" and I'm deadly passionate about being an advocate for your videos. They sre simply AMAZING! These videos have the potential to be the new ways of teaching in classes and more!

This was such an incredible and cool episode. well done CC.

This video has taught me more than school has done in 10 years so INTERESTING!

Loved this video Wren, I love mountains! But there is one thing I’d like to say, Mt Everest is still considered the most prominent mountain, quite a bit more prominent than Denali. Picking Everest basecamp as the base of the mountain is very arbitrary while you consider the entire island of Hawaii as a Mauna Kea.

7:30 a RU-vidr once said "Nice Caulk"

The animations you do are amazing

Bro made a video about exactly what’s going to be in my exam today Thx Wren🙏

Every one of Wrens videos brings me joy

Everest is not standing on the himalayas it's a part of it. It would be like saying you are not really that tall because your torso is standing on your legs.

I really like how this man presents the entire video, I mean, who's not gonna stick to the end of the video hearing this man's excitement

YES! I love this series!

At 0:30 you said the peak of Mount Everest is the closest thing to outer space in the entire world. This would actually be Chimborazo in Ecuador, which is the highest mountain on Earth, when measured from the Earth's centre rather than sea level. Because the earth gets squashed by its own rotation, the peak of Chimborazo is 1.5miles closer to space.

Can we do the true scale of why my ex wife took the children?

Rainier is actually used as a key training ground for anyone wanting to do Everest, due to its base to top height. I've been on Rainier's face (got altitude sickness in the process) and it's just breathtaking. Denali is the next step and great for learning also.

This video was actually great, well done!

They need to show these videos in schools!

So it's the highest not the tallest.

Technically the tallest mountain in the solar system may be Rheasilvea Mons on the asteroid Vesta. It is, however, all a bit of a guessing game because it is really difficult to measure accurately. So Olympus Mons is often placed at number one. It's also worth keeping in mind that earth is the only planet where mountains are measured from sea level, which is really arbitrary when you think about it. We are measuring mountains based on how much liquid happens to be standing on earth. By one argument you could measure Everest from its peak, right down to the bottom of Challenger Deep, assuming that everything is part of one gigantic mountain. This would make it around 20km high. Still slightly less the Olympus Mons, but getting close.

Just wanna say I think you really do great with this style of content. Love size comparison videos and the like and I think you guys have a great eye for it.

I love these Wren videos. Educational and fun is a rare mix he is really talented at.

0:25 is incorrect. Chimborazo's peak is the closest point on earth to space because of the equatorial bulge.

I’ve been saying this for years about Everest and it’s amazing to actually see it visually played out, amazing!!

I love the visuals, great video!

0:36 Honestly, I feel like humanity *should* make a building that tall, and that looks exactly like the one here

My gf is a scientist. Geology is her specialty, and I'm just an electronics/arcade tech, so I love sending her stuff like this. She usually sends me back any incorrect info she finds within minutes, as she was also a teacher. Told her she might like this and she watched and her response was: "It's a correct but kinda depressing because none of that information should be surprising to anyone who took earth science bc all of it (except some of the details about Mars) is taught in Earth science..." -A Scientist

Rheasilvia on the asteroid Vesta: 😶 Aside from that gotta love when corridor analyzes these things, I love ‘em too!

Congrats man as someone who is studying science in uk college which is university over there in america its good to see someone who doesn't take stuff at face value thats the most important skill you can have

The actual answer is Mount Chimborazo

0:39 Half-Life 2 Citadel be like:

I'm glad this video was made. It bothers me that people think Mt Everest is the tallest mountain on Earth when it's really just the highest. It bothers me even more that official base-to-peak lists are wrong because no accurate catalog of base to peak heights exist - so you have to manually digitally measure mountains to get their height because articles are wrong. Off the top of my head, a few mountains taller than Everest: *- Namcha Barwa (21,000' base to peak)* *- Rakaposhi (20,000' base to peak)* *- Tirich Mir (19,000' base to peak)* There's literally dozens of mountains that exceed 12,000' base to peak

The shots hit different when you show them from someone's POV in a city. Show us all the mountains from that view please!!!

The underwater Hawaiian islands were all above water at some point and slowly eroded and subsided as the tectonic plates moved. One day, the big island will lose its title as it sinks Westward and another volcano grows in its place.