Catskill Mountains

Everytime someone mentions mountains, I cannot help but to think about the trek up my first mountain. The first mountain I climbed, was Mount Fuji in Japan. Also known as Fujisan, this mountain stands at just over twelve-thousand feet. As the morning of the climb approached, my family and I got up early to go to the bus station. The bus ride was an hour long, past lush green farms,terraced rice paddies, down back country roads, before we arrived at the SUicide Forest. The Suicide Forest is…

involved in the profession and Sport he loved.” this shows how he loved his job and he knew the risks of it. Another evidence is, “ but you know, it is hard not to believe that notion isn't in the back of somebody's mind when they're up in these mountains.” This is relating to why they sign up for the job because they know the risks of being up…

Presto grabs the rope with his other hand and he goes up. “Let me down!” shouted Presto. Alec bites the rope and Presto came down. Continuing to chase Alec. Alec tries to break Presto’s arm, but Presto bites him. Alec screamed,”Owww!” Presto goes get another carrot and started to tease Alec with it. Alec sat on the chair and Presto went to grab in the hat but, Alec had other plans. Alec planned to make Presto feel his own pain. Alec started to do bad things to him. Alec shocked him again…

ascent the first week of July, and two weeks after we sold most of what we had, and put in boxes all the gear we already had. Summiting Everest depends on a number of factors, and any experienced climber knows this. Because Everest is the tallest mountain in the world, it is also regarded as a powerful one, and we all come to it both scared and excited. It is all part of doing one of the most difficult and dangerous things, in the name of the pursuit of happiness. With at least 12 successful…

The grass glistened like crystals from the summer morning dew. The sun was rising over the mountains in an elegant fashion, providing light for the world to see. There was a faint hint of a breeze. The trees laid upon the mountain restless. The mountains had jagged edges rocketing to the moon. The view was insurmountable, as the lake below glared with great brilliance showing undiscovered life and happiness. The land remained untouched, with a triumphant glare. This is where I wanted to begin my…

After we came back from winter break, everyone had forgotten what had happened except Priscilla, Munk, Martin, and the cobras. If you don't know what happened let me tell you. Munks Motegbd were in charge at this school. One day, Priscilla came and her only friend was getting bullied by munks cobras. Priscilla went over to stop him and up came munk. He was a whole lot shorter than Priscilla, and also more confident. As soon as he started helping the other one of his cobras, she walked up to him…

Prior to the 19th century, the idea of ‘wilderness’ was associated with desolation and an incredible fear of the unknown. This can mostly be attributed to early Christianity; in the Bible all things ‘wild’ were of hellish nature and meant only unpredictable darkness. It wasn’t until the beginning of the American romantic movement that this perception began to shift in the wake of great minds such as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, James Fenimore Cooper, Thomas Cole, and many other…

collided. This collision created another mountain range located in the same place where the Grenville Mountains and Taconic Mountains were formed. The Acadian Orogeny happened on the northeastern side of North America. Like TIA and the Grenville Belt, there was another land piece between Proto-North America and Baltica. This land piece was called Avalon. Avalon was believed to have broke apart from Proto-Africa. When Baltica hit North America, the mountain range created when the Avalon and…

won a Pulitzer prize and a National Book award; House (1985); Among Schoolchildren (1989), which was described by the New York Book Times Review as “full of the author’s genuine love, delight and celebration of the human condition.”; and Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003), which will be the main focus of this essay. Kidder graduated from Phillips Academy Preparatory School in 1963, Harvard University in 1967 with a BA in English, after an encounter in a creative writing course taught by Robert…

A small town called Westford, in New York State, that’s where I resided in for eighteen years of my life. Westford is about two hours of the city. The closest grocery store is thirty minutes away, and the nearest hospital is twenty three miles. Westford is all country in every way. Animals ran wild everywhere. Some of the animals you would see are squirrels, quails, chipmunks, deer, and even bear. They were not afraid of anything, until hunting season. The trees are so tall with many colors, red…