1. Chimborazo is an ice-capped inactive volcano in Ecuador.

2. Glacier Sorbet, Ecuador.Locals who live near the Chimborazo volcano trudge up to the summit regularly to cut off 50 kg blocks of glacier ice.

3. The site of the former Chimborazo Hospital, where countless wounded from Virginia’s many Battlefields were treated, is now a museum to the war’s medical history.

4. Chimborazo is not the highest mountain by elevation above sea level, but its location along the equatorial bulge makes its summit the farthest point on the Earth's surface from the Earth's center.