It was the race's first mountain stage, and that's his specialty.
Noguchi climbed his first mountain, Mont Blanc, at age 16 before becoming the youngest person to climb the highest peak on each of the seven continents.
At first blush Powder Mountain seems an unlikely place to launch the next wave of innovation.
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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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But the Crimson pulled off the biggest surprise of the tournament's first full day, knocking out the Mountain West champions and earning the school's first-ever victory over a team ranked in The Associated Press Top 10.
The Big Agnes Grouse Mountain, my first bag to test and arguably my favorite.
First, there is a mountain, then there is no mountain, then there is.
Then, beyond a lake populated by flocks of black swans, there is the first sight of the Tongariro mountain range.
With visions of sugar plums dancing in his head, he first sees nothing but purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain.
Who else, with hammer and little else, would have begun hewing out the spaces for the first explosives that carved the mountain?
Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country tour.
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So what the heck was I doing buying a stock like Green Mountain in the first place, which had a PE (based on trailing 12 month EPS) a little above 60 when I made my purchase?
Hosted by Eagles linebacker Dhani Jones, it takes us on a trip of "unique and out-of-the-ordinary" sports stories from across the U.S. Also making its first appearance tonight is Brokeback Mountain on HBO, but we'll probably opt for Battlefield Earth on Cinemax.
The Great Temple was first carved out of the mountain on the west bank of the Nile between 1274 and 1244BC, Ramses II's imposing temple was as much dedicated to the deified pharaoh himself as to the primeval Egyptian gods Ra-Horakhty, Amun and Ptah.
The University of Washington climbed up from number four last year to oust Green Mountain College from the first-place spot.
The QS' first national conference in May in Mountain View, Calif.
Snelson first delved into sculpture during his first summer at the prestigious Black Mountain College in 1948, when such legends as Willem DeKooning, John Cage and Merce Cunningham were on faculty.
To beat the crowds, get an early start on your first day by staying overnight at mountain station Kleine Scheidegg, the departure point for the Jungfraubahn, and catch the 8 am train.
Vermonters may already be celebrating their first place-finish with an invigorating mountain hike.
In April, the House Energy Committee approved a resolution to put the nation's first permanent nuclear waste depository beneath Yucca Mountain.
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His other career -- as an adventurer -- came about when he met John Doble, the former British High Commissioner to Swaziland, who introduced him to mountain climbing and funded his first ascents.
Silicon Valley cartographers held their first mash-up camp in February in Mountain View, Calif.
The Mountain View company is not the first to do this -- Apple did it with the iPhone and iPad back in 2010 -- but email is a relatively new frontier.
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The club also has the Rocky Mountain region all to itself and a first-rate facility in Coors Field, which opened in 1995.
Exactly when Jefferson decided to design and build his own house is not recorded, but the first mention of Monticello (which means "little mountain") is noted in his Garden Book on Aug. 3, 1767.
Mahan, who made six birdies in the final, is the first American to win the Match Play crown at Dove Mountain since Tiger Woods in 2008.
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This is the case of Zhou Xunshu, a 35-year-old pro golfer Washburn befriended during his first China Tour assignment, who grew up in a mountain village in the country's impoverished southwest.
As a banned athlete competing in non-sanctioned events, Armstrong since Aug. 12 has taken first place in a marathon, second place in a mountain bike race and fourth place in a half marathon.
Two first half goals from Cambridge midfielder Charlie Henry gave County a mountain to climb.
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