The 10 Lowest Places On Earth

Mount Everest gets all the press, but Earth’s basement is arguably the stranger place. Between the planet’s highest point (8,849 meters/29,031 feet up) and its lowest exposed land (about 440 meters/1,444 feet down), tectonic plates, volcanoes, erosion, wind, floods, and the occasional meteorite have carved out some truly bizarre real estate. This list heads straight downhill: the ten lowest points on dry land….