do you think the concrete post may be the marker in message 6083
anyway i feel very satisfied by this info
& send good luck from fortuna california
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BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Grant Hutchison"
<granthutchison@b...> wrote:
> 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