Off for a couple of days...Happy for anyone to take this over and get it moving again. The answer was Rudyard Kipling... Sent from my STF-L09 using Tapatalk
Highest point but not nearest to the Moon due to the curvature of Earth... You're getting warmer (literally) although the equator does not pass directly through this point...
Kilimanjaro was my guess when I first heard this question but it just came up short. The point you are looking for is in the Andes...
Sadly I cannot remember the names of any Andean peaks, except Mt Argentina, which I am guessing is too far south.
Because the Earth is not a perfect sphere and bulges near the equator it throws up a number of anomalies, for example I remember reading that the Dead Sea, which is the lowest point on Earth, is nevertheless further from the centre of the Earth than Mount McKinlay, which is the highest point in North America. But I don’t know the name of the Ecuadorean mountain in question, sorry
Ecuador is the only South American country I’ve been too and I still don’t know. When I was there the cloud cover was so low you couldn’t see any hills, let alone mountains.
That's it, Chimborazo at 20,549 feet and 1.4682 degrees south of the Equator just pips it's near neighbours Cayambe and Cotopaxi...
