Ecuador's Mount Chimborazo is scientifically closer to space than Mount Everest, not due to sea-level height, but Earth's equatorial bulge. This bulge makes points near the equator farther from the ...
The dormant volcano Chimborazo (in Ecuador) is the furthest point from the Earths centre, or the point on Earth closest to the sun! This is because of the equatorial bulge, pushing this point out into ...