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National Geographic : 1951 Dec
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Popocatepetl, the Aztecs' "Smoking Mountain," Lifts a Snowy Head 17,887 Feet Above Sea Level. Its Jagged Crater Spans Half aMile In colonial days Popo erupted violently. Today he only fumes, but now and then wrecks a plane lost in the clouds. Hundreds climb thecone every year; some make thrilling descents down the ice on straw-mat toboggans. Cortes's soldiers replenished their gunpowder bytaking sulphur from thepit. © National Geographic Society 815 Kodachrome byJustin Locke
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