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Which Is The Highest Mountain in Europe ...?
On August 3, 1787, the Geneva naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure ...
... publishes his measurements, which result in:
The Mont Blanc in the Alps on the border between France and Italy is - with it hight of 4810 m - the highest mountain in Europe.
The naturalist climbed the mountain himself and measured it himself!
As soon as de Saussure's statements are in the world, they immediately receive outraged opposition from other scientists:
According to their opinion, there is a much higher mountain in Europe - namely the Elbus in the Russian Caucasus Mountains with a height of 5642 m!
The dispute that began in 1787 has not yet been resolved, which is why this question will probably never be asked in a TV quiz!
Although the Elbus is significantly higher than the Montblanc, according to the followers of de Saussure, it is not in Europe at all!
For them, Europe ends in the so-called Manych Lowlands, a 500 kilometer long lowland between the Kuban-Azov Lowlands and the Caspian Basin in southern Russia!
In contrast, the Elbus proponents define the watershed of the main ridge of the Caucasus Mountains as the border between the continents ...:
Then the Elbrus and several other Caucasus peaks are in Europe and thus represent the highest peaks on this continent.
The Elbus currently has the majority opinion of the scientists on its side.
However, the dispute did not prevent the French, whose mountain the Swiss ennobled as the highest in Europe, from erecting a monument to de Saussure in Chamonix (from where he set out to climb Mont Blanc) ...:
On August 3, 1787, the Geneva naturalist Horace-Bénédict de Saussure ...
... publishes his measurements, which result in:
The Mont Blanc in the Alps on the border between France and Italy is - with it hight of 4810 m - the highest mountain in Europe.
The naturalist climbed the mountain himself and measured it himself!
As soon as de Saussure's statements are in the world, they immediately receive outraged opposition from other scientists:
According to their opinion, there is a much higher mountain in Europe - namely the Elbus in the Russian Caucasus Mountains with a height of 5642 m!
The dispute that began in 1787 has not yet been resolved, which is why this question will probably never be asked in a TV quiz!
Although the Elbus is significantly higher than the Montblanc, according to the followers of de Saussure, it is not in Europe at all!
For them, Europe ends in the so-called Manych Lowlands, a 500 kilometer long lowland between the Kuban-Azov Lowlands and the Caspian Basin in southern Russia!
In contrast, the Elbus proponents define the watershed of the main ridge of the Caucasus Mountains as the border between the continents ...:
Then the Elbrus and several other Caucasus peaks are in Europe and thus represent the highest peaks on this continent.
The Elbus currently has the majority opinion of the scientists on its side.
However, the dispute did not prevent the French, whose mountain the Swiss ennobled as the highest in Europe, from erecting a monument to de Saussure in Chamonix (from where he set out to climb Mont Blanc) ...:
