Geography (general, Mexico, state, origin)

[jtur88]

Does anybody know the record for the greatest vertical gain in one day by a mountaineer, on foot? I once heard that a mile (5,280 feet) is very difficult, but I find that hard to believe. In Romania, people walk up Mount Omu in city shoes for a Sunday outing, and that's a 5,000 foot gain. In Big Bend, birdwatchers in their 70's walk up 1,350 feet to see the Colima Warbler, and they're back down by lunch. I've done both of those, and I'm by no means a mountaineer, nor even in shape.

[pigeonhole]

Question about geographical atlases :
Does someone know the National Geographic Atlas of the World,-the cream of the cream of atlases in my book-and can tell me the date of the last (8th) edition?
I'd be grateful to you (plan to buy it but it must be recent).

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by pigeonhole

Question about geographical atlases :
Does someone know the National Geographic Atlas of the World,-the cream of the cream of atlases in my book-and can tell me the date of the last (8th) edition?
I'd be grateful to you (plan to buy it but it must be recent).

Here is the info from Amazon:

# Hardcover: 416 pages
# Publisher: National Geographic; 8 edition (October 1, 2004)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0792275438
# ISBN-13: 978-0792275435

[pigeonhole]

Thank you so much, jtur88...oh, wait, the last edition is 2004? already obsolete I fear...maybe I'll wait for the 9th edition! thanks anyway!

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by jtur88

Does anybody know the record for the greatest vertical gain in one day by a mountaineer, on foot? I once heard that a mile (5,280 feet) is very difficult, but I find that hard to believe. In Romania, people walk up Mount Omu in city shoes for a Sunday outing, and that's a 5,000 foot gain. In Big Bend, birdwatchers in their 70's walk up 1,350 feet to see the Colima Warbler, and they're back down by lunch. I've done both of those, and I'm by no means a mountaineer, nor even in shape.

This 8600 meters ascent (28,215 feet) may be a record in that respect, but it doesn't say so. It was also done on skis, which might not qualify as "mountaineering".

On 2 May Lionel Bonnel and Stéphane Brosse, two of France's most impressive ski mountaintaineers, set a new record on the Haute route Chamonix - Zermatt, completing the traverse in 21 hours and 11 minutes.

The two athletes departed from the church at Chamonix at 01.00 am on 2 May and, without the use of ski lifts or any other external aid, reached the church at Zermatt in Switzerland just over 21 hours later. In doing so the duo ascended circa 8600m and crossed almost 100km of terrain.

To give an idea of this feat's magnitude, this queen traverse invented in the 1950's by mountain guide Toni Gobbi is usually carried out in 6 or 7 days.

[camelot05]

I love how people in this thread claim to "have great memories" and "are remembering stuff from high school"... I'm assuming half of the answers in this thread were looked up online.

[skinem]

Originally Posted by camelot05

I love how people in this thread claim to "have great memories" and "are remembering stuff from high school"... I'm assuming half of the answers in this thread were looked up online.

Oh, ye of little faith!

I remember things better from high school than I do yesterday...

[jtur88]

Originally Posted by skinem

Oh, ye of little faith!

I remember things better from high school than I do yesterday...

More vividly, but less accurately. I often discover that I remember things very inaccurately, even though I think I am exactly right about it.

[mike0421]

What is the most populated city in the U.S. whose name contains just one syllable?

[Rob Allen]

Didn't we do this a few pages back? Or was it in another thread? I posted York, PA, but the answer was Flint, MI.