grant
sounds like our kind of guy to be sure
i wonder if jack has ever bumped into him up there
& it seems like ginge may even have hit a few mountain peak tricountry
points in this endeavor
tho i cant be sure without checking further
would you happen to know of any
like he might even be closing in quietly on our own king of kings peter
hering without anyone even realizing it
m
& i agree with your view that all these questions about continentality do
seem to blur & fog a bit in relation to the crisp level of detail &
consequence that we normally address here
making the continents a welcome digression & novelty
& a precarious foundation for our serious sandcastles
>
>My friend Ginge, who is even now attempting to climb the highest
>mountain in every country in Africa, ran into a peculiar hazard of
>the Africa/Asia divide - the highest point in Egypt lies in Sinai,
>which many folk consider to be in Asia. But Egypt is an African
>country, and therefore must have its highest point climbed. So does
>he climb the highest point of Egypt *in Africa*, or does he leave
>Africa to climb the highest point in Egypt?
>He has already knocked off the national highest points of Europe, and
>had similar philosophical problems there:
>a) Is Russia in Europe or Asia? Fortunately the highest point
>of "European" Russia is also the highest point in Russia, so he
>climbed it.
>b) The Transcaucasia debate already alluded to - he ended up doing
>Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan to satisfy the Guinness folk. He was
>happy to draw the line at the Caucasus ridge-line, but they weren't.
>c) Does Turkey's little footprint in Europe qualify it as European?
>(It certainly likes to be European for soccer matches and the
>Eurovision Song Contest!) Again, did he climb the piddling little
>hill that is European Turkey's highest point, or venture into Asia
>for Ararat? (He climbed Ararat.)
>
>Personally, I think continental divides are physical geographical
>concepts, and ought to follow physical geography, rather than
>political geography (and this is at the core of all Ginge's
>difficulties). So mountain ranges are good, and the narrowest points
>of isthmuses also seem good. But do I want to draw a straight line at
>the narrowest point? Doesn't feel right. Some riverine route from one
>coast to the other feels more "physical" to me, so I imagine I might
>end up snaking along the canal routes, like Michael (do the canals
>take the narrowest+lowest line? I don't know).
>And I haven't the foggiest notion what to do with the Europe/Asia
>divide south of the Urals and north of the Caspian. Does anyone else?
>
>Grant
>
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