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The World’s Highest Inhabited Altitudes

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Mar 20, 1893

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 19, No. 20.

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The World’s Highest Inhabited Altitudes

THE highest inhabited altitude in the world is the Buddhist Cloister at Halne in Thibet, 16,000 feet above the sea level. The next highest is Galera, a railway station in Peru, 15,635 feet. Near this place a tunnel, 3,847 feet long, is being bored through the peak of the mountain, 600 feet above the perpetual snow line. A miner's habitation on Mount Lincoln, Colorado, is 14,157 feet above the sea.