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work_lo3g37gkufekvmib7nwrci464e	Caroline Schaumann	Who Measures the World? Alexander von Humboldt's Chimborazo Climb in the Literary Imagination	2009.0		.pdf	text/html	617	134	70	[PDF] Who Measures the World? Alexander von Humboldt's Chimborazo Climb in the Literary Imagination | Semantic Scholar Alexander von Humboldt's Chimborazo Climb in the Literary Imagination}, Alexander von Humboldt's Chimborazo Climb in the Literary Imagination}, On June 23, 1802, Alexander von Humboldt, Carlos Montufar, Aime Bonpland, and three guides attempted to climb the Andean peak Mount Chimborazo, which at 6267 meters (20,561 feet) was thought to be the highest mountain in the world. The ascent was one of the highlights of Humboldt's legendary five-year research trip to the Spanish colonies in the Americas that began in 1799 in the Canary Islands and continued to Venezuela, Cuba, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico, and the United States. Figures from this paper Sort by Most Influenced Papers Alexander von Humboldt: Revolutionizing Travel Literature Semantic Scholar is a free, AI-powered research tool for scientific literature, based at the Allen Institute for AI.	./cache/work_lo3g37gkufekvmib7nwrci464e.pdf	./txt/work_lo3g37gkufekvmib7nwrci464e.txt