Mount Fuji

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 the woods around the base of Mount Fuji. It is called Suicide Forest because of the…

The Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province is a painting in a collection of works titled Thirty-Six Views of Mt. Fuji, by artist Katsushika Hokusai between 1830-1833. However, even though the series is named thirty-six views, Dawn at Isawa in Kai Province is the fifth of an additional ten paintings added onto the original set of thirty-six due to the overall popularity of Katsushika Hokusai’s work. The series, as the title states, contains thirty-six various views of Mt.Fuji and the areas surrounding the…

Nonetheless, although it is positioned in the left foreground, “the great wave” counteracts the asymmetrical aspect of the composition by being balanced by the Mt. Fuji, which appears much smaller in size. It is interesting to note the distortion of scale Katsushika Hokusai used in depicting The Great Wave in relation to the colossal Mt. Fuji. This creates a sense of implied depth through the overlapping of shapes, which suggest “an illusion of a third dimension.” This effect is emphasized by…

planning as I should have (I’m guilty of being impulsive as well as adventurous) and though it was a once in a lifetime experience as you’ll read further on some better preparation wouldn’t have gone amiss! Before I recount my personal adventure up Mount Fuji, I thought I’d give some basic background info on the mountain and the various climbing options. The Mountain is 3,776m tall and is very famously the tallest in Japan! Climbing season is from July-September each year and there are 4 trails…

Mt. Fuji is a Basaltic Stratovolcano. This volcano was “Born” from the base of Mt. Komitake about 100,000 years ago. The volcano that is today was formed over 2 generations of volcanic activity turning the “old” Mt. Fuji into the “new” Mt. Fuji. In 1707 was has been the latest eruption, or at least until now. In the 1707 there was an Edo Period, is caused an explosive eruption that created the Hoei crater and volcanic ash formed a vast volcanic plane to the eastern side of the mountain. Since…

volcanoes on the planet is the one and only Mount Saint Helens. Mount Saint Helens is located on the border of Washington and Oregon. There are many features this volcano has and why it is one of the most dangerous volcanoes on the planet. Mount Saint Helens is a stratovolcano that blew off its cone and now looks a lot like a cinder cone volcano but is not a cinder cone volcano. What are some features on Mount Saint Helens? A feature that Mount St Helens has is that it was referred to…

In 2004 through 2014, about 4,053 sherpas have died. This number would decrease if the government would ban expeditions, if people are not experienced. Throughout the years Everest has been a challenge that most climbers want to attempt. However, most people have different reasons on why they want to climb the mountain. One of those reasons that today stands out the most is that they want to feel more better than anyone else. With that big ego that they have, they ignore the fact that they are…

She walked quietly into the bedroom I had been staying in ever since Benjamin passed away. My daughter, Amelia, allowed me to live with her because she knew my husband’s death would have been difficult to deal with on my own. She had just returned from collecting a few photo albums from my house in Manhattan. “Good morning,” Amelia said cheerily carrying three enormous photo albums, “I can’t believe you have so many pictures of you and Dad. There must be so many memories you two shared.” “Oh…

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Introduction Postulated to be the result of either a long-runout landslide, or a structural pop-up, the Poverty Hills present a unique problem in the geologic community. Located on the western-most edge of the Basin and Range Province in eastern California (Fig.1), and within the Owens Valley basin, flanked by the Sierra Nevada and Inyo/White mountain ranges to the west and east, respectively. The hills are of particular interest as they represent an unusual combination of lithologies,…