In the course of writing my next book, Chimborazo, I discovered something that I’d never noticed before – that Ecuadorians are so proud of their highest mountain that they’ve put it on their national flag.
This fact got me thinking: is Ecuador the only country with a mountain on its flag? After squinting for half an hour at a database of world flags (that’s the kind of interesting life I lead) I discovered that the answer to this question is a resounding ‘no’.
In fact, there appear to be no f...
Published on September 12, 2018 08:36