Seems that word might not mean what all those Mount Everest adventurers think it means.
Here in Aspen, we have more than our fair share of Everest expeditionaries.
They may be climbing the wrong mountain.
Depending on how you define highest, Mount Everest is not the highest spot on earth.
According to May 1999 GPS triangulated measurements, Mount Everest is 29035 feet above sea level.
However, the top of Mount Chimborazo (elevation 20702 feet) in the Ecuadorean Andes is 1.36 miles further from the center of the earth.
Since the earth is not a perfect sphere, Mount Chimborazo is therefore 1.36 miles closer to the moon.
See: The 'Highest' Spot on Earth? and Did Edmund Hillary Climb the Wrong Mountain?
Here in Aspen, we have more than our fair share of Everest expeditionaries.
They may be climbing the wrong mountain.
Depending on how you define highest, Mount Everest is not the highest spot on earth.
According to May 1999 GPS triangulated measurements, Mount Everest is 29035 feet above sea level.
However, the top of Mount Chimborazo (elevation 20702 feet) in the Ecuadorean Andes is 1.36 miles further from the center of the earth.
Since the earth is not a perfect sphere, Mount Chimborazo is therefore 1.36 miles closer to the moon.
See: The 'Highest' Spot on Earth? and Did Edmund Hillary Climb the Wrong Mountain?
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