Here I am, back in Ecuador. Ecuadorians boast that the 6,310-metre high Mt Chimaborazo volcano protrudes 2,073 metres higher into space than Mt Everest and hence is the highest mountain on planet Earth. This is correct because of the equatorial bulge of planet Earth. Cero Latitud beer and 365 ways of cooking corn and spuds have also given me an equatorial bulge.
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