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mountain climbing
mountain climbing Sport and leisure activity that gained popularity in Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries. By the mid-1990s even the world's highest mountain, Everest, had been scaled by thousands of people – although the mountain continued to claim an average of three lives per year.... Read more |
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Cedar Mountain
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Mountain waves
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mountain
mountain high land mass projecting conspicuously above its surroundings and usually of limited width at its summit. Although isolated mountains are not unusual, mountains commonly form ranges, comprising either a single complex ridge or a series of related ridges. A group of ranges closely related... Read more |
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Black Mountain poets
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Maghrib
MAGHRIB Arabic term for northwest Africa in general, and for Morocco in particular. In its broadest meaning, the Maghrib (also Maghreb) refers to Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Tripolitania, and, occasionally, Libya. The region is characterized by fertile plains and the Atlas mountain range... Read more |
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Kanchenjunga
Kanchenjunga Kanchanjanga , or Kinchinjunga , mountain, on the India-Nepal border, E Himalayas; geologically regarded as part of the main axis of the Himalayan range. The third highest mountain in the world, it has five peaks, of which the tallest is 28,169 ft (8,586 m). In 1955 a British... Read more |
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Table Mountain
Table Mountain 3,567 ft (1,087 m) high, Western Cape, South Africa. It overlooks Cape Town and Table Bay . The summit is flat, and the dense white mist that often covers it is called the "tablecloth." A cableway (built 1929) carries visitors to the summit.... Read more |
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Zermatt
Zermatt , village (1989 est. pop. 4,000), Valais canton, S Switzerland. Near the Matterhorn, Zermatt is a popular resort for mountain-climbing and winter sports.... Read more |
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Stephen Harriman Long
Stephen Harriman Long 1784-1864, American explorer, b. Hopkinton, N.H. As an army engineer, Long was sent on several exploring and surveying expeditions. The first in 1817 was to the region of the upper Mississippi and the Fox-Wisconsin portage; it is recorded in his Voyage in a Six-oared Skiff to... Read more |
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Morocco mix of medieval, modern
A veiled woman carries her child...along what is called the "Route of...kasbahs" in the Atlas Mountains. (1) A tourist climbs to the top of...with Moroccan women swathed in black...and later the Arabs. The ... |
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Your Life: TRAVEL: SOUK it and SEA; MARKET MAGIC BY THE BEACH IN...
...Like all Arab towns, Agadir...I sat with Arab families escaping...through small Arab villages and...goats, which climb trees to munch...could have been called Mogadon, as...over the High Atlas mountains. ... |