Mount Everest is the highest point on Earth above sea level, with an official height of 8,848.86 metres, but it is not the point farthest from the planet’s centre. That distinction belongs to Chimbora
In 1965, a CIA mission to eavesdrop on China in the Himalayas led to the abandonment of a portable nuclear device, the SNAP-19C, by a team of American and Indian climbers during a blizzard on Nanda De