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Title: Travels amongst the great Andes of the equator
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Whymper, Edward, 1840-1911
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Publisher: New York, Scribner
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
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ther in the Yallon deDebris or in that of Tortorillas. He then speaks of following anarete, and his account agrees with the arete of the south-westridge ; and if his narrative is to be taken in a literal sense he must 1 There are in the Botanical Department of the British Museum some specimensof a moss of the genus Ortliotrichum, collected by the Col. Hall who accompaniedBoussingault upon his attempts to ascend Chimborazo, which are said to have comefrom a height of 18,800 feet, and to be the last trace of vegetation. I obtainedspecies of this genus upon the summit of Corazon (15,871), but did not meet with itupon Chiml ;>nzo, or see mosses growing anywhere upon that mountain higher than16,700 feet. It follows from what is said about the elevation attained by Col. Hull andBoussingault that I cannot suppose these specimens actually came from so greata height. 2 A detailed sketch of a portion of them accompanies Chapter XIX. 3 In recomputation, this has been increased to 18,528 feet.
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ICE-CLIFFS UNDER THE SUMMITS OF CHIMBORAZO. PHOTOGRAPHED AT 18,500 FEET.THIS, IT SEEMS TO ME, WAS THE SPOT AT WHICH HUMBOLDT AND BOUSSINGAULT STOPPED.* cnxr. in. PUZZLED. 77 have stopped at the foot of the .Southern Walls, at or about theplace marked F upon the illustration in Chapter XIX., and bya little cross on the plate facing p. 24, for his description agreeswith that place and cannot apply to any other.1 I am unable toexplain how he found that this place was elevated 19,698 feetabove the sea; still less do I understand, if he stood at thisspot, having the Glacier de Debris on his right, and the Glacierde Thielmann on his left, and magnificent sections of glaciercrowniug the Upper Walls, immediately above him, how it washe declared that he had seen no glaciers upon Chimborazo ! There is less certainty that Humboldt arrived at this spot. Itis impossible to determine from his own narrative where he actu-ally went. Boussingault says he knew that Humboldt made hisattempt upon the sid

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