The rover will head toward Mount Sharp, a 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of where it landed.
Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.
Precision in landing was important because NASA chose a relatively tight area for Curiosity's arrival: The Gale Crater, which contains an 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of the landing site.
The 40, 000-square-foot site in Mountain View, Calif. will host 10 to 15 nascent Internet firms.
Catherine's, at the foot of the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.
One at a time, they dashed in and out of the brush at the foot of Komugi Mountain.
The water turns to spray before it reaches the foot of the mountain and provides moisture to the tropical forest.
The mountain's 900-foot vertical drop is the largest in the upper Midwest and double that of most others in the ski-crazed Northwoods.
From the entrance to the cable car at the foot of the mountain to the slopes at the top, security guards and volunteers checked credentials every step of the way.
Spending nights at the villages of Phortse Tenga (3, 700m), Dole (4, 200m), Machhermo (4, 500m) and Gokyo (4, 800m) offers a comfortable four-day approach to the foot of the mountain from Namche Bazaar, ascending gradually through the thinning air.
Longtime skier Petitt is thinking about expanding his mountain, with its 660-foot vertical drop, to create a less challenging path for families.
Longtime skier Petitt is thinking about expanding his mountain, with its 660-foot vertical drop, to create a less challenging path to attract families.
He was with two other companions Saturday afternoon when an avalanche swept them more than 1, 200 feet down Granite Mountain, a 5, 600-foot peak about 45 miles east of Seattle.
From the outskirts of Laroque, you can look across the vineyards to Canigou, the 9, 000-foot (2, 700m) mountain peak that holds special significance for Catalans.
At the foot of a black, volcanic mountain I find the Commonwealth team hunched against the gale and wolfing down mouthfuls of some glutinous meal.
Speaking of skiing, JPL is a thirty-minute ride from Marmot Basin, a fantastically beautiful ski mountain with nine lifts, a 3, 000-foot vertical drop and superior snow conditions.
Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 40-foot catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
Krakow lies at the foot of the Tatras, a continuation of the great Carpathian mountain range that for centuries marked the border of the Habsburg empire.
And in 1965, selling motorbikes for a spell in Moses Lake, Washington, business became a lot more interesting when, fired up with a Wild Turkey or two, he did tricks to draw in the customers: jumping a car, then a car and a 20-foot box of rattlesnakes, then two cars, rattlers and a mountain lion, until a crowd came to watch him.
Before him loomed a 475-foot-tall hill that in Evansville, Ind. passes as a mountain.
Though Squaw's most obvious attraction is the mountain's awesome 4, 000 acres of skiable terrain and 2, 850-foot vertical drop, the area abounds with activities year-round, including golf, climbing, horseback riding and hiking.
Working my way around this tumor with a ten-millimetre camera on the end of a foot-and-a-half-long wand was like trying to find my way around a mountain with a penlight.
With no boundaries between park and hotel, guests can expect mountain sheep, coyotes, even the odd bear to range over the hotel's stunningly picturesque grounds at the foot of the Rocky Mountains.
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