Mountains Beyond Mountains

feel-good music and hindered by nothing but a good story between the three of us. Then I woke up, and reality hit. What reality told me was that I was much more out-of-shape than I would have liked to believe, that I ditched my best friend in the mountains of Colorado, and that I still had two more grueling days of physical pain. All of these thoughts poured in before I had even left the tent. We were just two mindless…

companionship of my childhood best friend, I took the first flight to the last frontier: Alaska. Intending to experience as much nature as possible, we immediately forged into the unfamiliar yet beautiful Alaskan forest. Looking up from the base of the mountain, we saw a distant peak and summiting that peak became our only goal. My perception that this was a simple climb was shattered as the incline began to increase and the trail became hazardously icy. With burning legs and struggling lungs, I…

the vast jungles of Peru trying to find clues for what he was looking for. With the help of native farmers that lived near the relative location of what the explorer was after, Hiram Bingham crossed the Urubamba River, hiked two thousand feet up a mountain and found what he was looking for, the city of Machu Picchu. At first, Hiram thought it wasn't there because of the vegetation and the growth of plants and moss. Later after the exploration, Bingham, his native guide, and Bingham's military…

town of Lake Wales, FL. Live the famous Bok Towers. The singing Towers with its carillon bells is 205 ft (62m) tall. Joy Wallace Dickinson (2004, Jan 8). The tower was built by an architect named Frederick Law Olmstead. The tower is built upon Iron Mountain, one of the highest points of peninsular Florida, estimated to be 295 ft (90m) above sea level. National Register of Historic Places (2007, 22 09). The Bok Tower is a grand structure of remarkable songs and extravagant art. The music is made…

There is an interesting piece of artwork by Robert Dale Anderson called Dark Passage. He created this piece in 2002, most likely with oil paint on a canvas. The theme of the painting is very simple: a road through the mountains to a Dark Passage, but the meaning of the painting is very multidimensional. The painting demonstrates an unknown aspect, which to me, relates a lot to life. Life has a general direction, but there are so many different experiences unknown to us, but the major one is like…

Site Visit The Site that I visited was Dawn Mountain Tibetan Buddhist temple on Sunday the 27th at 11:00 a.m. I choose to go to Dawn Mountain because I like the fact that Buddhism doesn’t really have a god, and it’s more of a Philosophy. Also I like to meditate, it’s very tranquil and relaxing. I didn’t have many expectations going in just because I didn’t really know what was going to happen during the service. All I expect was it would contain focus breathing a lot of silences. I didn’t…

to find Eldorado, he should boldly ride over the mountains and down the “Valley of the Shadow”. The poem leaves the reader in suspense because the narrator never specifies if the old Knight ever found Eldorado. As the reader knows, this poem is a narrative meaning…

gender norms, a subset of the media featured women highly engaged in wilderness recreation, mostly found in the form of videos. Some of these activities were physically demanding with inherent danger, such as downhill skiing, downhill mountain biking, and mountain climbing. In the majority of these cases, the women are identified by their names, containing close-up pictures of the women and providing some information about their accomplishments relating to wilderness recreation. Figure 1 is a…

time in that it either created struggle in regions, or emphasized the struggle already present. This period certainly magnified the hardships that the Appalachian region was facing both socially and economically. These hardships, however, spawned far beyond the Depression, which led to the creation of the Appalachian Regional Commission, signed into effect by Congress in 1965 (About ARC). The struggles Appalachians faced resulted in the implementation of the ARC, which has found past and present…

resident soul of Eva-01, Yui Ikari. At the end of the vision Rei looks up from within Eva-01 and is patently shocked, letting out a gasp. Interpretation "Mountain... Heavy mountains. Things that change over time. 山。重い山。時間をかけて変わる物。 Sky... Blue sky. What your eyes can't see. What your eyes can see. 空。青い空。目に見えない物。目に見える物" Rei compares Mountain and Sky, these are other terms for earth and heaven, terrestrial and the celestial, body and soul. One is visible to the eyes and the other isn't. Rei…