Show ANDES MOUNTAIN TOWERS BEYOND FAMED EVEREST Mount t 1 Everest erest Is accepted as the highest mountain In the world But what do we e mean b high Eleva Elevations hons are arc gh en In terms or of sea level If we sUl me e them from the cen- cen center center ter of the earth It turns out that In the Andes Is 2 OO meters 7 17 S feet feet higher than Mount Everest Lerest In presenting this In Die lI Dr G points out that accurate measurements have hae been made of the of sea sealevel level from the center of the earth from the equator to the poles Where tile the distance is not known n It can be deduced with an error of hut but a few meters While It Is true that time Ule earth Is not t a perfect sphere or even an ellipsoId no correction need be made on the score of figure because the earths earth's diameter does not vary Measured from the center ot of the earth Mount C Everest crest Is s exceeded ILl il heIght not only b by Chimborazo but by bv On his first flIght Into the stratosphere reached an altitude of 15 S km Im 0 D 70 mIles or G km Im 3 tG G 6 miles from the center of the earth eal tIl His ilis height was therefore about that of Mount lount B crest Had he a ascended from a place on the equator or from one of the mountains of Ecuador he Would really have leached an great great- or er Ulan than any e eTer er attached by b man manAs manAs As It Is the world s record must be given to any ana aviators tors who may have flown over Chimborazo Even Ben Benthe the Russian stratosphere balloonists who ho came to a tragic tr end after reaching an altitude of 15 4 km 11 45 mIles did not overtop o PIC- PIC card carll SUt me measured cd by bv the earth center standard Inasmuch as they ascend ascended ed from ft om a mOl e northerly and there there- therefore therefore fore a deeper New latitude York TImes |