Subject: CIGNLR, CIGNh, LRh,
Date: Mar 09, 2003 @ 17:33
Author: Grant Hutchison ("Grant Hutchison" <granthutchison@...>)
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Extracts from a letter received by my friend Ginge Fullen (who's
currently climbing the highest points in every country in Africa),
from a geologist who worked in the Nimba Mountains around the Cote
d'Ivoire/Liberia/Guinea tripoint. "Guest House Hill" is an old name
for Gbahm Mountain, the Liberian highest point, and "Mont Richard
Molard" is now Mont Nimba, the highest point in both Guinea and Cote
d'Ivoire.

"It should be noted that the Nimba Mountains stretch across the
international border between Liberia, Guinea (Conakry), and the Cote
d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast). The border point, marked by a simple concrete
post, about three feet high, between these three countries, is
located on the crest of the Nimba Range, about four kilometers (2.5
miles) northeast of 'Guesthouse Hill'.
...
As a matter of curiosity, it should be mentioned that the guesthouse,
referred to in the name 'Guesthouse Hill', originally was built as a
very solid concrete construction on the north slope of that hill,
only a few yards below the summit, in order to serve as housing for
myself and my family back in 1957. We never got to live there,
although it was a prime location with an amazing view over three
countries and the northern parts of Nimba Mountains, including the
highest point in Guinea, at the time called 'Mt. Richard-Molard',
with a height, then measured by the French Institut Geographique
National (IGN) to a height of 1752 m ab. s.-l. Later, I believe it
was reduced by newer measurements to some 1711 meters, but that would
have to be verified."

Grant