For anyone with additional time and energy, the brooding peak of 2, 462m-high Mount Nkungwe is eminently climbable and makes a fine adventure.
Set deep in the Purcell Mountain range and reaching jagged and sharp into the sky, 2, 651m-high Mount Nimbus is the kind of wild and extraordinary place that few casual mountaineers can usually reach.
After summiting the craggy Ragged Jacket, 2, 462ft, and 2, 782ft-high Mount Meader's sparsely pine-covered crest without finding a water source, we needed to get back down to Wild River as soon as possible to refresh and refill.
There are numerous hiking opportunities in the park, including the ascent of the 2, 364m-high Mount Iglit, and the loincloth-wearing indigenous Mangyan people who populate Mindoro's virtually impenetrable interior offer serious explorers a chance to visit one of Southeast Asia's most isolated tribes.
The dream of drug developers for years has been to invent new medicines in the manner of biotech hothouse Genentech, now part of Roche, which used cutting-edge biology to develop new kinds of protein and antibody drugs that could mount a high-tech assault on cancer.
Together with an amateur astronomer friend from California, Mandel has traveled to Australia and set up a high-powered telescope, mount and CCD camera in Lee's own backyard observatory, which they've dubbed the Australian-American Imaging Station.
Since 'T-Mac' entered the NBA in 1997, straight out of Mount Zion Christian Academy High School, he has embarked on a rapid uphill climb toward the ranks of the league's elite players.
The rover will head toward Mount Sharp, a 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of where it landed.
As someone who has done high-altitude trekking, including to the Everest base camp and Mount McKinley in Alaska, Babar is used to careful bets.
First off, it adapts your Canon EF (full-frame) lenses to E-Mount, which is nice enough since there's still a paucity of high-end glass for NEX users.
As soon as a high-speed Internet connection becomes available in Coonabarabran, the trio plan to hook their Australian mount into Mandel's California computers so they can control the observatory remotely.
In the gallery stands a 15-inch-high marble head of one-eyed Polyphemus (aka Cyclops), who lived in a cave on Mount Etna.
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