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	Correcting common geographic misconceptions
		In fact, as the world turns, the point that comes closest to the moon is the top of Mount Chimborazo, an extinct, snow-capped volcano in the Andes Mountains of central Ecuador.
		Mount Chimborazo is situated about one degree south of the equator, while Everest is at about 28 degrees north latitude.
		Though nearby Mount Cotopaxi, an active volcano even closer to the equator, is a thousand feet shorter than Mount Chimborazo, it is still growing.
	www.post-gazette.com /travel/20001029bear1.asp (927 words)

	Chimborazo: Climbing Glaciers Near The Equator
		Chimborazo is very high, it randomly shruggs off large rocks, and has weather that changes by the minute.
		Chimborazo is in Ecuador, near the Equator (100 miles south).
		The summit of Chimborazo is the furthest point from the center of the Earth.
	www.thebackpackingsite.com /chimborazo.html (1041 words)

	Climbing Chimborazo
		Stand on top of Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador, and you are as far from the center - or as close to the sun - as you can get without flying.
		Chimborazo is near the Equator (100 miles south).
		As mentioned, the summit of Chimborazo is the furthest point from the center of the Earth.
	www.ecuadornow.com /chimborazo.html (1366 words)

	Climbing Mount Chimborazo - Ecuador - Family Vacations and Traveling with Kids
		Chimborazo is in Ecuador, not far from the Equator (100 miles south).
		Chimborazo, at it's peak, is the furthest point from the center of the Earth.
		I was told you don't want to be on Mount Chimborazo when she wakes up.
	www.alltravelingkidsfamilyvacations.com /articles/climbing-mountchimborazo-ecuador.html (1201 words)

	Chilling Chimborazo
		Chimborazo’s páramo was itself witness to the greatest battle of Conquest of the Incas, in May 1534: the Battle of Teocajas.
		Around the cairn were more grisly reminders of just how dangerous Chimborazo is: more than a dozen memorials in the shape of tombstones, epitaphs to mountaineers who died on the mountain, including one to a woman, Marianne Stoll, killed in 1984.
		"We climbed Chimborazo and almost died." Only a couple of months ago, Hernan said, two foreigners died in an avalanche, and the body of a Japanese climber was recovered after being frozen for 12 years.
	www.geocities.com /glendavidshort/chimborazo.html (2721 words)

	Chimborazo (volcano) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Chimborazo is located in the Cordillera Occidental of the Andes of central Ecuador, 150 km (93 miles) south-southwest of the capital Quito.
		The Chimborazo is surounded by the "Reserva de Produccion Faunistica Chimborazo" which forms a protected ecosystem to preserve the habitat for the andes native camelids Vicuña, Llama and Alpaca.
		Its glacier is the source of water for the population of the Bolivar and Chimborazo provinces of Ecuador.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mount_Chimborazo (1256 words)

	ipedia.com: Andes Article (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Mount San Valentin 3900 m (12,700 feet) is the culminating point of the Andes in the region extending from 49° to 46°S, a little north of which is the river Huemules which is followed by the breach of the river Aisen.
		Mounts Tupungato, Aconcagua 7130 m (23,393 feet) and Mercedario 6700 m (21,982 feet) are the highest peaks of the central Argentine-Chilean Andes.
		Mount Chimborazo, which is not in the main chain, reaches 6310 m (20,703 ft); since Earth bulges at the equator, its summit is further from Earth's centre than that of Mount Everest.
	www.ipedia.com /andes.html (3435 words)

	Learn more about Mountain in the online encyclopedia. (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The highest mountain on Earth is Mount Everest, set in the world's most significant mountain range, the Himalayas.
		Another contender for this title is Mauna Loa, which stands taller than Mount Everest when measured from its base on the ocean floor but not in terms of summit altitude above sea level.
		The summit Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2,150 m further away from the Earth's centre than that of Everest, since the Earth bulges at the equator, but at 6,272 m it is not even the tallest peak in the Andes.
	www.onlineencyclopedia.org /m/mo/mountain.html (590 words)

	CLIMBING MOUNT CHIMBORAZO
		The climb up the glaciers to the summit of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador isn't considered highly technical.
		I hadn't intended to go climb up Mount Chimborazo with such lightweight gear, but I had come to Ecuador on a courier flight, and could bring only carry-on luggage.
		If you want to climb Mount Chimborazo, it is cheapest to wait until you get to Ecuador to make arrangements.
	www.everythingabouttravel.com /mountchimborazo.html (1191 words)

	Mount Chimborazo - Education - Information - Educational Resources - Encyclopedia - Music
		Mount Chimborazo is an extinct volcano located in the Andes mountains of central Ecuador, 150 kilometers south southwest of Quito.
		Since the Earth bulges at the equator and Chimborazo is just one degree south, this means the summit of Chimborazo is the furthest point from the center of the Earth.
		Until the beginning of the nineteenth century it was thought that Chimborazo was the highest mountain on Earth, and such reputation led to many attempts on its summit during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
	www.music.us /education/M/Mount-Chimborazo.htm (506 words)

	Climbing Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador - Mountain Climbing Adventure
		Climbing the glaciers to the summit of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador isn't highly technical.
		When he saw my insulating vest, a feathery piece of poly batting with a hole cut in it for my head, I just pretended not to understand what he was saying.
		I was told you don't want to be on Chimborazo when she wakes up.
	www.nomadjournaltrips.com /mount_chimborazo_ecuador (1035 words)

	Chimborazo Children's Fund - View The Progress (Updated)
		The children that we are helping were originally from 4 of the 100 indigenous communities who live on the mountain known as Mt. Chimborazo in Central Ecuador.
		Now there are children from 10 area communities coming to the school, and enrollment is expected to exceed 250 students for the next school year.
		The school itself is being built at an altitude of 3600 metres [11,810 feet] on the slopes of Mount Chimborazo, 55kms.
	www.chimborazochildrensfund.com /view_the_progress_(updated).html (906 words)

	MOUNT CHIMBORAZO
		The climb up the glaciers to the summit of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador isn't highly technical.
		When he saw me putting on my insulating vest, a 4-ounce piece of poly batting with a hole cut in it for my head...well, I pretended not to understand what he was saying.
		I had only 12 pounds in the pack to begin with, so by the time I put on all the clothes that night, the weight on my back was irrelevant.
	www.themountainhikingsite.com /mountchimborazo.html (1040 words)

	Llama Trivia and Oddments - Page Five
		The title of this hand-coloured engraving, which was published in 1825, is “Chimborazo as seen from the Plain of Tapia”.
		Chimborazo, at 20,561 feet, one of the highest mountains in the Andes is located in Ecuador.
		It is one of the first mountains that the Conquistadores would have seen on their way to Peru and that is the reason that we called one of our Conquistador offsprings Chimborazo.
	www.mountlehmanllamas.com /trivia05.html (214 words)

	Height of the Tallest Mountain on Earth
		Chimborazo is a volcano in the Andes of Ecuador.
		Mount Lamlam is roughly 5300 m tall from its western base to its peak and Challenger Deep is roughly 4900 m from its eastern base to its depths.
		Mount Lamlam is tall, but certainly not the tallest mountain measured from base to peak.
	hypertextbook.com /facts/2001/BeataUnke.shtml (1283 words)

	Andes Mountains Adventure
		Mount Chimborazo is in Ecuador, about 100 miles south of the Equator.
		Chimborazo's shadow fell across forty miles of land to the west.
		I was told you don't want to be on Mount Chimborazo when she wakes up.
	www.amazingonline.info /a-10053-Andes_Mountains_Adventure.html (880 words)

	Excite España - Búsqueda Web - Resultados con: Chimborazo
		Location: 1.46S 78.82W Chimborazo (1.6S 78.6W) is located in the Inter-Andean Graben, a north-northeast trend structural depression that...
		Chimborazo, a formidable extinct volcano of some 22,000 feet, is situated in...
		Chimborazo, todo lo que necesita saber de la Provincia de Chimborazo, Ecuador...
	www.excite.es /search/web/results?q=Chimborazo (207 words)

	Richmond Public Schools
		Named for the nearby Chimborazo Park, believed to have been named for Mount Chimborazo, the highest peak in the Andes of Ecuador.
		Chimborazo School opened in September 1905, with grades 1-7 in eight classrooms; the 1903-04 annual report includes a sketch of the building.
		In February 1957, the white pupils were transferred to Nathaniel Bacon, and Chimborazo was converted to a Negro school with pupils transferred from Bellevue, Bowler, and George Mason.
	www.richmond.k12.va.us /indexnew/sub/history/Chimborazo_old.cfm (300 words)

	Structure of the Earth - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		The rotation of the Earth causes the equator to bulge out slightly so that the equatorial diameter is 43 km larger than the pole to pole diameter.
		The largest local deviations in the rocky surface of the Earth are Mount Everest (8,850 m above local sea level) and the Mariana Trench (10,911 m below local sea level).
		Due to the bulge, the feature farthest from the center of the Earth is actually Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/s/t/r/Structure_of_the_Earth_0d62.html (1496 words)

	Altitude of the Highest Point on Earth
		Mount Everest is the highest peak in the Himalayan mountain range.
		Mount Chimborazo can be regarded as the highest point on earth because the planet is widest at the equator.
		The summit of Mount Chimborazo is then 3219 m further from the center of the earth than Mount Everest, making it what some consider the highest point.
	hypertextbook.com /facts/2001/ChristinaWong.shtml (620 words)

	Mountain - The shape of the land, Forces and changes, Spotlight on famous forms
		Mount Everest, on the border of Tibet and Nepal
		Although the summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayan Mountains is the highest elevation on land, it is not the farthest point from the center of Earth.
		Because of the equatorial bulge, the summit of Mount Chimborazo is 7,153 feet (2,180 meters) farther away from the center of Earth than the summit of Mount Everest.
	www.scienceclarified.com /landforms/Faults-to-Mountains/Mountain.html (4649 words)

	Travel To China - Mount Everest
		Mount Everest, measuring from sea level, is the tallest mountain on Earth.
		Mount Everest is still growing due to the plate tectonics of the area; however, the effects are significant only on a geological timescale.
		The summit of Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is 2,150 m further from the Earth's centre than that of Everest, because the Earth bulges at the Equator.
	www.goingtochina.com /attractions/Mount_Everest.htm (1643 words)

	Unasylva - No. 208 - 2002 INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF MOUNTAINS
		For the ancient Greeks, Mount Olympus was the fortress of Zeus, the king of the gods who struck down his enemies with bolts of lightning.
		Native Hawaiians regard Kilauea as the body of the volcano goddess Pele and object to geothermal drilling on the mountain as a violation of her physical Parvati, which means "daughter of the mountain".
		Mount Koya (Koyasan) has one of the most impressive graveyards in Japan, located in a forest of giant cedars centred around the mausoleum of Kobo Daishi, the founder of Shingon or Esoteric Buddhism.
	www.fao.org /docrep/004/y3549e/y3549e13.htm (1089 words)

	EcoAndes Travel: Climbing in Ecuador, Climbing Cotopaxi, Chimborazo, Cayambe, Antisana (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Cotopaxi is identified as one the highest active volcanoes in the world and its summit reach the altitude of 5897m.
		Chimborazo is Ecuador´s highest and largest mountain (6.310m).
		For a long time it was considered as the world´s highest mountain (but in fact it is due to earth´s equatorial bulge, which makes the peak of Chimborazo be the farthest point from the centre of earth).
	www.ecoandestravel.com /climbingb.html (843 words)

	Treasures from Olana: Landscapes by Frederic Edwin Church
		Humboldt likened the grandeur of Mount Chimborazo to Michelangelo's dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, an analogy with a religious connotation Church would have appreciated.
		Until the beginning of the 19th century, Chimborazo was thought to be the highest mountain on earth, with an elevation of approximately 20,700 ft. Its great height and location near the Equator result in an extraordinary level of biodiversity within a relatively small geographic area, providing Humboldt with evidence of nature's harmony.
		He used the studies of Chimborazo from a variety of perspectives to create the composite view of the mountain that appears in The Heart of the Andes (1859; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) and in Chimborazo.
	www.huntington.org /ArtDiv/Church2006/Church2006.html (2043 words)

	history (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Chimborazo Elementary School has a rich history that began during the Reconstruction period after the Civil War and the Emancipation Proclamation.
		The school was named for the nearby Chimborazo Park, located on a promontory overlooking the James River.
		The name is believed to have come from Mount Chimborazo, the highest peak in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador.
	www.richmond.k12.va.us /schools/chimborazo/history.htm (328 words)

	Climbing Mount Chimborazo (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I climbed almost forty feet while people walked by with their sleds, warning their kids to stay away from me. Driving Up Mount Chimborazo It is easier to climb a mountain when the guide drives you to 15,000 feet.
		A Little About Mount Chimborazo Chimborazo is in Ecuador, not far from the Equator (100 miles south).
		NOTES: If you want to climb Mount Chimborazo, it is cheapest to wait until you get to Ecuador to make arrangements.
	www.fire-place.net /climbing-mount-chimborazo.html (1534 words)

	martin-trip-Ecuador-2002
		I had just moved 4" closer to my goal of climbing Mount Chimborazo, in Ecuador, whose peak is over 20,600 feet high.
		Another guide we ran into on the road to Chimborazo told us his, and all other parties, had to turn back due to avalanche danger and deep snow on the route.
		Chimborazo had a reputation as a accessible mountain to amateur climbers but in reality the "easy" route had become unstable over the last 5 years and only "technical" routes were now considered safe.
	www.friedrichs.us /martin-trip-Ecuador-2002.html (2743 words)

	EO Newsroom: New Images - Chimborazo and Tungurahua, Ecuador
		In 1802, Mount Chimborazo was thought to be the world’s tallest mountain, and the ambitious young German naturalist Alexander von Humboldt set out to climb it.
		Because of the bulge, the summit of a peak lying along the equator would be farther from the center of the Earth than the summit of an equally high peak at a higher latitude.
		The vegetation at the base of Chimborazo is lush, but its summit is covered with ice, and Humboldt realized that climate and vegetation vary as much with altitude as they do with latitude.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Newsroom/NewImages/images.php3?img_id=17121 (464 words)

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