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Top of the morning and happy New Year to you! We’re kicking off the new year with a strong new mini-series: Mount Elbrus!
For being the highest mountain in Europe, Elbrus is little known to the wider world. Today’s discussion long enough, that we decided to split it up and let you enjoy it over two episodes—15A and 15B.
Today you get a “street-level” view of the mountain, with some history and a sprinkling of fairly uninformed geology. But plenty of awe and wonder. We’re loaded with links below, so check them out! Then come on by for a look at one the Seven Summits of the world!
Links for Episode 15
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Errata
In this episode, Eli boldly but incorrectly asserted that in Greek mythology, Prometheus was the son of Poseidon, who is the brother of Zeus, and therefore himself Zeus’s nephew. This is incorrect. Prometheus was a Titan, born to Iapetus who took as his wife the “neat-ankled maid Clymene.” To him she bore Prometheus “full of various wiles,” and his three brothers, Atlas, Menoetius, and “scatter-brained Epimetheus.”
SOURCE: Hesiod, Theogony.
Andrew also ventured that our local airport, Mineralnye Vody, is at sea level. This is also false. MRV airport sits at 321 m / 1,053 ft.
