Farthest point from the center of the Earth
Conventional wisdom would make this easy. Fortunately you will rarely find conventional wisdom here on The Bacon Strip.
From Google Sightseeing:
Let’s look at Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador. The summit of Chimborazo is 6,267 m (20,561 ft) above sea level, which is quite large but not quite the highest mountain in the Andes. If you take into account the Earth’s equatorial bulge, a straight line from the summit down to the estimated centre of our planet would be 6,384.4 km (3,967.1 mi).
Pretty cool! It’s also the closest you can get to the surface of the moon without leaving the ground! I wonder how much closer The Sphincter Team got to the moon on their trip up Volcan Orsorno…
Stay tuned for updates from LowCO2, Huck Tater and myself this week as we head down to ride bikes @ 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo. And try to imagine this awesome print of Mt. Banner @ Thousand Island Lake by The Restless Ape in your living room, Bedtoom, or bathroom. You’ll get a chance to bid on it this week!
-M
Hey, SphincterGirl climbed Chimbo last year! The major highlights included group-living experience with 13 of her closest friends, various regurgitory altitude ailments, and the use of a she-nis for, uh, relief. She said it was a hell of a climb, though.
We didn’t get too close to the moon on Osorno, unless you count the full moon everyone else saw from the refugio when I leaned out the window and dropped my tr…oh, never mind.