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Four Mexican citizens died in a climbing accident on the Pico de Orizaba, which is the highest mountain the country, authorities said Sunday. The civil defense office in the central state of ...
Pico de Orizaba, also known as Citlaltépetl (from Nahuatl citlal(in) = star, and tepētl = mountain), is an active volcano, the highest mountain in Mexico [1] and third highest in North America, after Denali of United States and Mount Logan of Canada. Pico de Orizaba is also the highest volcano in North America.
Climbers fall while scaling southern slop of Mexico’s tallest mountain
Pico de Orizaba (Citlaltépetl), a stratovolcano on the boundary between the states of Puebla and Veracruz, is the highest mountain peak of Mexico. This article comprises three sortable tables of major mountain peaks [1] of Mexico. The summit of a mountain or hill may be measured in three principal ways:
Pico de Orizaba: Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt ... The prominence of a peak is the minimum height of climb to the summit on any route from a higher peak, or from sea ...
Pico de Orizaba [c] (Citlaltépetl) Puebla Veracruz: Cordillera Neovolcanica: 5636 m 18,491 ft: 4922 m 16,148 ft: 2,690 km 1,672 mi 4 Mount Saint Elias [d] Alaska Yukon: Saint Elias Mountains: 5489 m 18,009 ft: 3429 m 11,250 ft: 41.3 km 25.6 mi
On 9 December 2018 after scaling Ojos del Salado, Canadian climber Theodore Fairhurst became the oldest in the world to climb both the Seven Summits and Volcanic Seven Summits at 71 years and 231 days. [9] On 4 July 2023, Australian-born Caroline Leon completed the Volcanic Seven Summits in the fastest time of 183 days. [10] [11] [12]
Peck climbed 18,406-foot (5,610 m) Pico de Orizaba and also Popocatepetl in Mexico in 1897. At the time her climb of Orizaba was the highest ascent in the Americas ever made by a woman. [9] Three years later, in 1900, she climbed Monte Cristallo in the Italian Dolomites, the Jungfrau in Switzerland's Bernese Alps, and the Fünffingerspitze in ...