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The captured video and the weather data are transmitted wirelessly to the Ev-K2-CNR Pyramid Laboratory/Observatory, located on the slopes of Mount Everest at an elevation of 5,050 m (16,568 ft). The live video is analyzed in the observatory, then sent to Italy for further processing. [2] Last images are given daily as of December 2022.
Chacaltaya (Mollo language for "bridge of winds" or "winds meeting point" [citation needed], Aymara for "cold road" [1] [dubious – discuss]) is a mountain in the Cordillera Real, one of the mountain ranges of the Cordillera Oriental, itself a range of the Bolivian Andes.
Almost all mountains in the list are located in the Himalaya and Karakoram ranges to the south and west of the Tibetan plateau. All peaks 7,000 m (23,000 ft) or higher are located in East, Central or South Asia in a rectangle edged by Noshaq (7,492 m or 24,580 ft) on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border in the west, Jengish Chokusu (Tuōmù'ěr Fēng, 7,439 m or 24,406 ft) on the Kyrgyzstan ...
Chimborazo is only the 39 th tallest mountain in the Andes, when measured from sea level, but there was a brief time in the 19 th century when it was thought to be the world’s highest peak.
Ushguli is located at an altitude of 2,100 metres (6,900 ft) near the foot of Shkhara, one of the highest summits of the Greater Caucasus mountains. About 70 families (about 200 people) live in the area, enough to support a small school. The area is snow-covered for 6 months of the year, and often the road to Mestia is impassable.
It is the highest point in sub-Saharan western and central Africa, [5] the fourth-most prominent peak in Africa, and the 31st-most prominent in the world. The mountain is part of the area of volcanic activity known as the Cameroon Volcanic Line , which also includes Lake Nyos , the site of a disaster in 1986 .
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I read the article and the definition seems to be obfuscated by random pictures and verbiage dealing mostly (in my understanding) with prominent, mongoloid cheekbones, protruding brow ridges and large orbits. In my mind high cheekbones means small orbits. 67.206.184.216 21:43, 27 December 2014 (UTC)