Here mountains give way to an expanse of deserted white sand that runs hundreds of metres from shore at low tide, with the warm water waist-deep for hundred of metres more.
Here in the mountains, where every sunrise starts, I'll heal my heart for awhile.
But there's a second list I'd like to compile after a few days talking to senior leaders and business people here in the mountains.
Lovecraft (you can read it here), Mountains tells the story of shape shifting alien monsters unleashed by a group of explorers in the Arctic.
It is here that the Apennine Mountains drop a thousand feet straight down into the turquoise Ligurian Sea .
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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 lush pine forest that covered every inch of these pristine mountains had been cleared here.
More than 100 flat-topped table mountains can be found here...
But the ones here along the western edge of the Rocky Mountains aren't ordinary prairie dogs.
The main channel deposit seen here resembles a dirt road ascending into the mountains, which are actually the north wall and rim of Gale Crater.
It is only by doing nothing here that we are able to live in these mountains.
If you make a disturbance here, we will be hunted out of these mountains.
He used to come here as a child 30 years ago and remembers mountains full of trees and grazing deer.
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This is the oldest mountain range in the world and for a 100 years, mining these mountains has brought jobs for the people here.
Some software startup may have an edge here over Apple, Google and the other big players with mountains of big data at their disposal.
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Anyone who has ever been to Rwanda can tell you that the hills here are no joke: every hairpin turn boasts views of mountains and more mountains, and even the urban neighborhoods are built on steep hillsides.
This is why I have come here: to ride through the remote Tian-Shan (Celestial Mountains) mountain range along ancient routes and through wide high-altitude pastures, known as jailoos, where shepherds have been grazing livestock for centuries.
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Here, near the settlement of Sesriem, westerly winds from the Naukluft Mountains to the east collide with the Atlantic winds, stopping the dunes' advance.
Local lore has it that Buddha looked at this location between the Mekong and Nam Khan rivers with its ring of lushly forested mountains and predicted that a great city would someday be built here.
Their solution was to yield most of the canvas or panel to the gray, fog-and cloud-filled sky (curator Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis, calls them "our Dutch mountains"), with blue openings torn into the gray here and there so that spots of sunlight could illuminate parts of the land or water below.
But nowadays when they mine here in West Virginia, they don't take the coal from the mountains, they literally take the mountains from the coal.
People come here for all sorts of reasons: to ski, climb and hike on the mountains, to raft and kayak the rivers, to camp among the trees, or explore on their mountain bikes.
Here's a young man in his 30s, writing during his summer vacations in the Austrian mountains in the 1890s, with beautiful lakes and forests all around him.
With 2, 000 hours of sunshine each year, plus buckets of snow blanketing the mountains of Sun Peaks, it is a wonder only 400 people claim year-round residence here.
Here, you'll find a small pool overlooking Beirut's bullet-riddled concrete jungles and surrounding mountains.
Here we are photographed while on safari at the Kilembe copper mines near the astounding snow-capped peaks of the Mountains of the Moon and the Queen Elizabeth Game Park.
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