Rising about 28,250 feet, K2 is surpassed in height only by Mount Everest (more than 29,000 feet), 800 miles to the southeast.
In particular, the Tibi Dam across the Monnegre River in Spain, a curved gravity structure 42 metres (138 feet) high, was not surpassed in height in western Europe until the building of the Gouffre d'Enfer Dam in France almost three centuries later.
Here's an interesting philosophical question: If what matters psychologically is relative height, by treating short children with growth hormone, aren't we creating a whole new class of undersize "victims," the untreated kids they surpass in height?
Even after the Woolworth Building was surpassed in height by the Chrysler Building in 1929, it never relinquished its claim on the imagination of New Yorkers, thanks largely to Cass Gilbert's design, a strongly vertical interpretation of the Flamboyant Gothic style.
But if a plan put forth by the medical center gains city approval, the Annenberg may be relieved of its pariah status, surpassed in height and maybe local resentment by a condo tower.
For all his many feats, however, the defining event of that life was what happened on K2, a colossus rising about 28,250 feet in the Karakoram range, surpassed in height only by Mount Everest (more than 29,000 feet).
Although Millennium Force has been surpassed in height and speed, it remains one of the tallest and fastest in the world.
However, it was greatly surpassed in height by the spires of Lincoln and Old St. Paul's.
After Austin's skyscraper construction boom, which began in 2007, Frost Bank Tower was soon surpassed in height by the 360 Condominiums at 563 feet in 2008.
The unfinished building was not surpassed in height by any new hotel until the 2009 completion of the spire atop the Rose Tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Less than a year after it opened to the public on May 27 , 1930 the Chrysler Building was surpassed in height by the Empire State Building, but the Chrysler Building is still the world's tallest steel-supported brick building.
