Has Mount Everest been dethroned? Is Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo actually the tallest mountain in the world? Like any good ole scientific dispute, the issue is debatable, but there are surefire methods ...

Chimborazo's unique location near the equator makes it an attractive destination for mountaineers. Mount Chimborazo, an inactive stratovolcano in the Ecuadorian Andes, has challenged Mount Everest for ...

What is the highest mountain on Earth? Turns out the answer to that question is more debatable than you might think. If you measure altitude above mean sea level, then the 29,032-foot (8,849-meter) ...

But lesser peaks than Everest, of course, have also thwarted climbers’ ambitions with deadly disasters at dizzying heights. As it turns out, in fact, that mean sea level standard isn’t the only way ...

Mount Everest may be the highest mountain to climb in the world, but it's actually not the tallest mountain on Earth. According to a recent New York Times report, that designation belongs to Ecuador's ...

22:16, Fri, Jun 3, 2016 Updated: 22:26, Fri, Jun 3, 2016 It might sound unbelievable, after all, there’s absolutely no disputing that Mount Everest is the tallest mountain in the world - it’s 8,848 ...

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Quito (AFP) – Ecuador's last mountain ice harvester, Baltazar Ushca, who spent over half a century climbing the country's highest summit to extract ice at the top, died Friday at the age of 80, ...

At an age when many in the West are enjoying retirement, a 68-year-old in Ecuador spends hours trekking up a mountain in the Andes to cut away ice to sell. He is the last practitioner of a dying trade ...