Then, beyond a lake populated by flocks of black swans, there is the first sight of the Tongariro mountain range.
Who else, with hammer and little else, would have begun hewing out the spaces for the first explosives that carved the mountain?
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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 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.
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?
It was the race's first mountain stage, and that's his specialty.
The University of Washington climbed up from number four last year to oust Green Mountain College from the first-place spot.
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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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.
Fast forward two years, and the first Rwandan national team, The Silverbacks named for Rwanda's mountain gorillas, will make their debut at the Kowloon RugbyFest: a 10-a-side tournament which features teams from around the world.
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.
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.
They lived in the same house in Mountain View where their son would later hand-build the first Apple computers.
The power dates back more than 90 years to the first commissioner, U.S. District Court Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who insisted on the powers before taking the job.
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The Big Agnes Grouse Mountain, my first bag to test and arguably my favorite.
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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.
Scott Sports had bolted the U.S. bike market in 1997 after a buyout. (The firm got its start in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1958, selling the first aluminum ski pole.) Montgomery persuaded Zaugg to reintroduce the firm's road and mountain bikes in the U.S.--with him as a vice president of Scott USA. Zaugg, admiring Montgomery's confidence and connections in the bike biz, figured Montgomery was the ideal front man.
The club also has the Rocky Mountain region all to itself and a first-rate facility in Coors Field, which opened in 1995.
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.
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.
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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As a result, the first luxury hotel opened in Chamonix in 1816 and the famous Compagnie des Guides de Chamonix, or association of accredited mountain guides, was founded just five years later.
In 2004 Concentric Medical of Mountain View, Calif. unveiled one of the first devices to treat stroke, a kind of corkscrew for the brain.
Daniel Roth, editor of Fortune.com and Fortune Digital, is leaving Time Inc. and joining the Mountain View, California-based company as its first executive editor.
At first blush Powder Mountain seems an unlikely place to launch the next wave of innovation.
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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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