What is the highest mountain on Earth? Turns out the answer to that question is more debatable than you might think.

Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador could be considered higher than Everest by one measure. But it’s way more within reach — physically and financially — for adventure travelers.

While Mount Everest is the highest above sea level, Chimborazo’s 6,263-meter (20,549-foot) summit achieves its unique status through the equatorial bulge of the planet.

Ecuador in South America is a country steeped in culture, rich in history and bursting with natural beauty - yet it doesn't ...

Mount Chimborazo, an inactive stratovolcano in the Ecuadorian Andes, ... Mount Chimborazo, Mount Everest, Ecuador. Related News. Mt Everest's Snow Cover Receded By 150 Metres This Winter, ...

Now it is they themselves that have caused serious damage to the ecosystem at the base of the 6,310-meter volcano. For years, no one living in the shadow of Mount Chimborazo imagined the glacier ...

Ecuador's last mountain ice harvester, Baltazar Ushca, ... as the last practitioner of the age-old profession of ice harvester on Mount Chimborazo, a dormant volcano 6,310 metres high.

If you measure altitude above mean sea level, then the 29,032-foot (8,849-meter) Mount Everest, which straddles the border between Tibet and Nepal, is clearly the world’s highest.

The route up Mount Chimborazo is less punishing than the "highest" Himalaya peak. - Roland Knauer/Alamy Stock Photo Others come to Chimborazo for its special alpine environment.