Chimborazo Day 2024 is on Monday, June 3, 2024: Hiking Mt Chimborazo?

Monday, June 3, 2024 is Chimborazo Day 2024. Sylvan Lake Library: June 3 - Chimborazo Day celebrate Chimborazo Day,

Chimborazo Day remembers the mountain which signifies the greatest point on the planet. Technically, Chimborazo is greater than Mt. Everest, because it resides nearer to the equator in which the Earth ‘bulges’, which makes it relatively taller despite the fact that it’s more compact overall!

Chimborazo is a heavily glaciated dormant volcano. You need mountaineering gear (crampons, ice axes, climbing harnesses and ropes) as well as alpine climbing training and experience to climb it. You can't just hike up it. I have not climbed it but several people in my outdoor club have climbed Chimborazo over the years and i have seen their photos and slide shows. It is not a technically difficult climb but you still need to be properly equipped and be with people that know what they are doing. There are huts for overnight sleeping on the mountain (the climb typically takes 2 to 4 days), but it is cold year round and due to the elevation many people have trouble with altitude sickness. The altitude makes climbing it seem much more difficult due to low air pressure.

The reason it is defined as being so "close to outer space" is that it sits close to the equator and the earth bulges slightly around its middle (like most people) so the summit is farther from the core of the earth than the summit of other mountains on the planet that are a higher elevation above sea level.

Technically the tallest peak on earth from base to summit is Mauna Kea in Hawaii, but most of its base is under the ocean. The tallest from base to summit on land is Denali (also known as Mount McKinley) in Alaska because the base is closer to sea level than other peaks like the Himalayas.

You could learn alpine climbing in the Canadian Rockies of Alberta and BC (a great place to do beginning mountaineering) and then climb Chimborazo. But other than feeling more short of breath than you would on top of a Canadian peak, the summit will not seem much different. The earth's atmosphere is 11 miles thick and you will still be 7 miles below "outer space". Even Mount Everest is only half as tall as the atmosphere. You are higher in most transcontinental airline flights than on the tallest peaks.

I have 10 days in Panama in mid April ... whats my best bets for must see places in Panama?

Making a complement of the best answer of rivkarut2004, there is a little correction in Albrook Regional Airport ticket from Panama to Bocas, The cost is $164.00 roundtrip.

I recommend you to go on those ten days, first finish the city, i mean the Canal , Casco Viejo, National Theather, Cathedral Church, Las Ruinas de Panama La Vieja , El Coastway, Albrook Mall, Multiplaza, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo,

Then test the following panamanian restaurants that are not too expensive, but very exquisite:

El Chimborazo: located in Juan Diaz, for appetizer take a ceviche de Corvina and for meal take a fried fish with yuca... very exquisite

Flamencos: Located in Coastway of Amador, Take a spaqhetti with shrimps. very good

Parrillada Jimmy: Located in Avenida Balboa, Take a Broiled Octopus.... Excellent.

El trapiche: Located in Via Argentina, take a Hojaldre Sandwich with the topping of your choice...... Excellent.

Palacio Lung Fung: Located in Transistmica, take a dim sam breakfast, the best of the best.

All of those one are located in the middle of Panama, not far away, so you can go and taste. WAO.

Then Go and take the 1 hour plane in Albrook and go to Isla Bocas for 2 days. When you come go to El Valle de Anton, that is a place that my partner above me recommend, stay there 1 night, so you can go and pay $2.00 to hike in the forest. It is pretty, then when you come to Panama, you can go by the train to Colon and come back.

If i was you, i will do it in this order:

Day One: The Canal and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, eat at El trapiche the food i recommend you.

Day Two: Take a breakfast in Lung Fung, Then walk in all over the Coastway de Amador watching the places and taking the breeze, eat in Flamencos there, then come back and check Albrook Mall (Very Big).

Day Three: Go to El Casco Viejo, Cathedral Church and the National Theather. You can see the old houses with a lot of years and other ones with an old fashion but very beautiful. Then go to Mi Pueblito, beautiful place for foreigners.

Day Four: Ruinas de Panama La Vieja, Multiplaza, and go to eat at Parrillada Jimmy. Delicious.

Day Five and Six: The plane to Isla Bocas.

Day Seven: Train to Colon

Day Eight and Nine: Stay in El Valle de Anton and come back to Panama City.

Day Ten: Walk all over the Via Venetto, after that take a Taxi and go to eat at la Tablita, then go to Multicentro.

Those are top places to go and visit. Now i have to mention the bars and take some beers if you drink, like hooters, fridays or you can go to a cheap one as i told you La Tablita... very good beers and the sell a choripan sandwich..... excellent

Nightclubs, that are very inn are People and Moods located in calle Uruguay.

Those are the places that you dont have to leave Panama before visiting them.

Welcome

Does anyone have a personal account of the Ecuador volcano Tungurahua that erupted the other day?

I live in Ecuador, so what exactly would you like to know?

Basically we've been expecting for it to eruptionate for years, and this time they were careless in my opinion. They prepared the people living there quite well a few years ago but now it's a whole tragedy happening there.

The actual eruption wasn't that extreme but the problem is that there are a lot of explosions currently going on every day and night and it's highly probable that the "big" eruption will repeat.

Currently, people in that area have all types of problems, most involving ashes and their crops and cattle as they rely on them and now the ash is causing them to die, leaving those people without any income or food whatsoever except for the contributions people are making. Some of them are very poor so they just can't evacuate.

There have also been whole areas erased by the volcano and the government is planning on reconstructing and relocating them when the volcano calms down a little more.

So you can see, finally Mama Tungurahua roared.

Anyway, one of Ecuador's charms for tourists are the volcanoes and believe it or not, many tourists are now currently visiting cities and towns near the volcano to experience the eruption.

Tungurahua has been for years a great attraction, especially at night when you can clearly see the sparks and explosions in a bright magmanic red. Definitely Ecuador is a great country to get to know Mother Nature.

I personally am fascinated with volcanoes, and that's a good thing about the capital as in a clear day you can see a few magnificent volcanoes like: Cotopaxi, Chimborazo (these two are amongst the biggest volcanoes in the world), Ilinizas, Guagua Pichincha, and a few more.

Now, off-topic, you plan to come here to live? That's cool, I know many people from the US that just come here and stay to live cause they love it, so I hope it all goes well for you too.