An Asian goose has been seen flying as high as 6437 meters while the highest residency in the world is La Rinconada in Peru with its people living at 5100 meters above sea level. But the record for the highest permanent resident in the world belongs to the Himalayan jumping spider.
Living at elevations as high as 6700 meters the spider (euophrys omnisuperstes, which literally means “standing above everything”) relies on small insects blown up by the wind as its main source of food. The spider also has to survive on very little oxygen.
