Mountains Beyond Mountains

Pinecrest Lake is a popular reservoir located thirty miles east of Sonora, and one mile from Highway 108. The pretty lake is hemmed in by a long forested ridge on its south shore. The landmass is called Dodge Ridge, and it has a ski resort on it. Beyond the resort the ridgeline continues to rise, gradually, and three miles later it crosses an administrative boundary line. The ridge, which divides the Stanislaus River from the Tuolumne River, continues inside the Emigrant Wilderness Area. The…

Presently, my father was a proud guy; short, scarcely 5'7", however hefty. He was numerous things – a mountain climber, a craftsman, a survivor, a seeker… however for the most part, he was pleased. He imparted in me the majority…

Furthermore, finding someone to eat lunch with when we stopped around one o’clock that day seemed like an impossible challenge. The isolated feeling continued as we arrived on the mountain, everyone from my club was beaming and excited as could be, except me, and that feeling would not change for quite some time. When I received my dorm assignment and recognized that two Goochland leaders were in my dorm of six people, I was overjoyed:…

The oldest mountains in America are rich in natural beauty with their raging creeks, steep hollows and old pines. They are also one of the poorest, most disadvantaged regions in America and the problem that goes largely unnoticed by the rest of the country. The relationship between poverty and population health disparities including premature mortality is well established (Shaw & Smith, 2006). For example, a recent study found that poverty had a larger impact on reducing quality-adjusted…

that Shi Guorui focus on camera obscurea photography, as he travels with a portable photo tent he takes a lot of his photo of. His expansive photographic projects include the Great Wall of China, the Shanghai riverfront, and K2, the second-highest mountain in the world. His work emphasizes the iconic status of each location and commemorate the human endeavor associated with it. Michael Light is a photographer and bookmaker focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture…

In his book, the Iliad, Homer constantly makes comparisons between the actions of humans and those of animals in order to further visualize the situation to the audience. One such instance appears in the second book as Homer likens the gathered armies to a flock of birds. Homer says “They were like great flocks of geese, or cranes, or swans on the plain about the waters of Cayster, that wing their way hither and thither, glorying in the pride of flight, crying as they settle till the fen is…

Continuation Beyond Death Ever since he is borned, Hyunwoo has been a strange child. From his odd birthmark to the way he acts. The birthmark on his arm resembles a cresent moon and has a silver sheen to it. His parents used to think it is really unique but now even as he grow older, it never fades. They start to become worried. For as long as he remember, Hyunwoo has the ability to understand cats and communicate with them. When he was yonger, the adults laughed at him but didn’t…

This mountain climb has been the hardest battle yet on the journey, we need to find a way to get through this. I think that if we keep trying and get to the top of this mountain we will be able to say that we have followed a map and figured out what was at the end. We have now escaped the cave and are making the rest of the way up the mountain. I cannot wait tell we make it all the way up there and figure out way we made this whole journey to Alaska. At the top of the mountain we find a…

The Navy’s Sea, Air and Land Forces – commonly known as SEALs – are expertly trained to deliver highly specialized, intensely challenging warfare capabilities that are beyond the means of standard military forces; including: direct action warfare, special reconnaissance, counterterrorism, and foreign internal defense. Navy Seals achieve the impossible, in many ways by; critical thinking, sheer willpower and absolute dedication to their training, their missions, and their fellow Special…

failed and were eventually abandoned; after the fact, the owner of the mine stated in a press conference that “‘had [he] known that this evil mountain, this alive mountain, would do what it did, [he] never would have sent the miners in there’” (34-35). Humans have caused infinite destruction to the once pristine Earth, and by doing so they have weakened it beyond repair. Here, the Earth is retaliating by beguiling the miners and encasing them beneath its flesh, sealing them off to their terrible…