The 2,582-meter (9,357-foot) stratovolcano is mantled by a 30-square-kilometer (10-square-mile) glacier field, most of it amassed south and east of the summit in a basin made by a caldera depression.

In the mountains of southwest China's Sichuan province, children descend an 800-meter (half-mile) cliff on unsteady vine ladders to reach school.

The first and only Games event was a 192 meter run; which is about 0.1 mile.