OUR BURNING PLANET: Nature’s Defenders: Alexander von Humboldt – the most important forgotten man of science

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by Don Pinnock, Daily MaverickNature’s Defenders: Alexander von Humboldt – the most important forgotten man of science by Don Pinnock, Daily Maverick July 22, 2021 Driven by an insatiable desire to understand the world, Alexander von Humboldt and his friend, French botanist Aimé Bonpland, were dragging their oxygen-starved bodies along ever-narrowing paths up the Andean peak Chimbrazo, then considered the highest mountain in the world. It had never been climbed.

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