unsuccessful attempt to scale the mountain in Ecuador. Chimborazo Hill was one of Richmond's seven hills and thought to have been so named by a local world-traveler because of its topographical likeness to the Ecuadorian volcano. A brewery had dug cellars in the Richmond hill to store beer. At the top of the cellars was a hole that acted as a chimney. A Richmond newspaper reported that any fire in the cellar would cause billows of smoke [to come] through making the hill look like a miniature Vesuvius.