Then, beyond a lake populated by flocks of black swans, there is the first sight of the Tongariro mountain range.
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.
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 avalanche on the western side of the mountain, America's highest peak, was first thought to have occurred on Thursday, the parks service said Sunday.
No. 44, the first man from "the land of a thousand hills" to ever race a mountain bike in the Olympics.
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The University of Washington climbed up from number four last year to oust Green Mountain College from the first-place spot.
Sqn Ldr Than had recently returned from an AMA expedition to China in December 2012, where his team had become the first to reach the peak of the 5, 640m (18, 504 ft) Wupingfeng mountain in Sichuan province.
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.
The Race2Recovery team is hoping to become the first disability team to complete the challenge, which takes in around 9, 000 kilometers of extreme mountain and desert terrain.
In a story from our Aug. 20 issue, FORBES examines the rise of Cheriton, who went from a Stanford academic to Silicon Valley entrepreneur to the first outside investor in the Mountain View, Calif.
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In 2004 Concentric Medical of Mountain View, Calif. unveiled one of the first devices to treat stroke, a kind of corkscrew for the brain.
At first blush Powder Mountain seems an unlikely place to launch the next wave of innovation.
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So the number one on Google Trends when I first checked it was Vinson Massif, which is the actually the name of the highest mountain in Antarctica.
"It's one at a time, and it's fairly slow work, " said Michael Mountain, president and CEO of Best Friends Animal Society, one of the first animal organizations allowed into the city to rescue pets.
The first, the increased push for drug safety, calls for an ever-increasing mountain of data before a new medicine is approved.
Early this morning at Moffet Air Field in Mountain View, California, Solar Impulse finally took off on the first leg of its barnstorming tour across the US. Of course, this isn't the first time the sun-powered plane and its pilots, Bertrand Piccard and Andre Borschberg, have flown long distance, but it is the first time it's taken wing through American airspace.
For the first six months, I had close contact with Afghans as a member of a propaganda unit, driving around mountain villages to hand out food and fuel and show films.
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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.
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