Summary: Ice-covered Orizaba offers climbers 18,700 feet of volcanic challenge The rays of the rising sun began poking through the marine clouds over the Gulf of Mexico just after 6:30 a.m. The frozen ...
- an extinct volcano in southern Mexico between Mexico City and Veracruz; the highest peak in Mexico (18,695 feet) ...
MOUNT ORIZABA, or Citlaltepetl, in Mexico, has been measured trigonometrically by Mr. J. T. Scovell, with the result that its height is fixed as 18,314 feet. Popocatepetl is about 700 feet lower, and ...