Tourism accounts for an estimated 10% increase in wood consumption, according to the Nepalese government, which leads to an estimated 240 million cubic metres of mountain topsoil lost on Everest every year, further triggering forest depletion.
And hedge fund titan David Einhorn has publicly dismissed Green Mountain as an overvalued stock backed by poor management: Since Einhorn first spoke last fall, Green Mountain stock lost nearly three-quarters of its value.
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Back then, the locals could not begin to understand why would ever scale a mountain unless you had lost a goat up one.
Green Mountain shares have since lost two-thirds of their value as the company reported disappointing earnings and the hedge funds who drove it to irrational highs abandoned it.
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The partisan crowd at Cypress Mountain groaned when the home favourite lost his balance while coming off the second-to-last jump.
It includes striking examples, such as the melting glaciers of Kilimanjaro (the highest mountain in Africa) which have lost 80% of their surface area during the twentieth century due to the combined effects of climate change and human activities.
The mountain, he claimed, has already lost some 82% of its permafrost since 1912 - and 33% of this in the past two decades.
Owner Johann Krige estimates 25% of production has been lost in a fire that swept down the Simonsberg Mountain, largely affecting their prized Pinotage grapes.
For much of the time since, due to deforestation and poaching, it has seemed the mountain gorilla was swiftly destined to be lost to the world again.
"From 1850 to 1980 Alpine glaciers lost half their volume, on average, " says mountain expert Bruno Messerli of the University of Berne (Switzerland).
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Here and there, amid mountains dubbed by National Geographic The Lost Sierra, you still can find old cables that hauled mining buckets up the mountain and that today's longboarders believe doubled as the world's first ski lift.
The half-troll then murdered his nephew to avenge his lost daughter, unaware that she had drifted to safety in Greenland, before he retreated inside the mountain, where he hides broken-hearted to this day.
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