Mountain range

The Pyrenees mountain range is a large, grassy area that spreads not only over the country of Spain, but also France as well. Rather than just running along the border of these two beautiful areas, but they span into both quite a ways, giving each of them the same beautiful and unique characteristics found nowhere else in the world. Along these craggy peaks, cold springs and small houses are speckled around, creating a peaceful surrounding area which bring in hundreds of tourists every year and…

Pale yellow-green grass hills rolled for miles in front of me. A massive ten thousand foot red rocked mountain met these hills, then instantly towered above them. As I took a sip of water, I eyed the summit and felt a little cooler on the hot summer morning. Already heating up I needed to remind myself to conserve water. My journey had just started. Cruising through the empty hills a massive crater came into view. As I the edge of the crater a lake formed by snow melt rested at the bottom;…

exciting mountain community because of the world class fly-fishing in its lakes and rivers, the night life at the Village, and the thrilling Mammoth Mountain.…

changes. The sky starts to turn a darker more vivid blue as everything else turns a tint of red form the dust. The mountains around me are a bright dusty red, and the closer to the amphitheater that I got the rock walls turned into a dark clean red that looked like it was tanned by the sun and the dust washed off by the cool whirling winds coming off the giant white peaked mountains.…

I came across an oil on canvas painting of everything I have learned what realism art is suppose to look like. The painting was of a man on a horse looking down on a boy with a dog close behind them on a dirt trail. There were tall trees, large mountains, and a river that seemed to show how small the characters were in painting and how nature was that surrounded them. The painting was titled In the Catskills. The artist of the painting was Asher B. Durand. Durand lived from 1796-1886; he painted…

What really climbing Everest is Many people believe that climbing the mountain Everest would consume a lot of physical strengths. It is absolutely true that it acquires a tremendous amount of strength. However, climbing the Everest need more than physical endurance. As reading through ‘Into Thin Air’, the prejudices of climbing the Everest had collapsed. Thinking about Everest, people need enough physical strength to endure all the pains during climbing, but the prerequisites of climbing were…

I’ve climbed a mountain; not like marched up Everest, but climbed a 100 foot rock face. It is important you know this about me because this act encompasses how far I’ve come in my life, and in my art. It is also the thing I am most proud of. First, I have never been the thinnest girl, quite the opposite actually, so the idea of putting on a harness in front of anyone was terrifying. What if it didn’t fit, or worse, what if it barely fit and I looked like one of those stress toys you squeeze?…

Interviewer:What did you hope to experience in the Andes? Rosemarie Alecio:I could not wait to experience the beauty and depth of the Andes.Looking up to the mountain , all I could imagine was my husband and, I on top of the magnificent Venezuelan Andes.The height of the ridged and sharp angles was the finest I've ever witnessed. We gazed up at the rugged and rough shape of the Andes as it looked more immense as we drove closer. I recall ,I couldn’t have waited until I could climb the peak of…

“By endurance we conquer.” - Ernest Shackleton. Polar expeditions are some of the most dangerous expeditions out there and are very demanding. Planning the trip, animals, living conditions, food and each crew member struggling to help each other out and keep their sanity are just some of the hurdles in these treacherous expeditions. You might already have a clue about how hard these expeditions are because well, everyone knows how harsh Antarctica is being known as a “frozen desert”, but in this…

Lodge, Montana, I am able to lay my eyes upon one of the most majestic places I have ever seen, Beartooth Mountain. The first time I see the mountain I am astounded anything could possibly be so immense. The sun catches the snow at the top of the mountain shooting light down into the Valley below. Then my view slides down the mountain, numerous pine trees seem to wrap around the entire mountain like a child in their blanket. This is the moment I realize it is amazing that later today, I am going…