Cumorah's Hill

Know one doubts that the hill where Joseph Smith received the plates is known as Cumorah but is the hill where the final battles between the Nephites and Lamanites took place another Cumorah?  The Book of Ether tells us that Omer traveled to this place of the last battles of the Nephites, and that the relatively short duration of this journey would not account for 3000 miles from middle America to New York.  A similar journey was undertaken by Lemhi's men, of equally short duration.  The description of the geographical features around the final battle site is also at odds with the topography of present day Cumorah. 

For many years now a number of Book of Mormon students have held that the Cumorah of the Book of Mormon, the one in which Mormon originally hid the records of his people (Mormon 6:6), and the one around which the final battles between the Nephites and Lamanites took place (Mormon 6:8-15), was located somewhere in the area of Mexico and Guatemala, not in New York.

The Hill Cumorah