His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Since nineteen fifty-three, more than ten thousand people have attempted to climb to the top of the world's highest mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Some of them are paths made in the early nineteen hundreds by men who climbed the mountain to cut trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Here they can see Waimoku Falls where water drops one hundred twenty meters down the face of a mountain.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

The water in the stream flows down from Blue Mountain Lake, a sacred place for the Taos Indians.

VOA: special.2010.07.05

During those long summer days, The Luck was carried up the mountain to the place where the men were digging for gold.

VOA: special.2009.06.06

If you visit the western mountain and plains state of Montana you will know why it is known as Big Sky Country.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

The company that makes Red Bull energy drink built him his own halfpipe on Silverton Mountain in Colorado.

VOA: special.2010.02.26

People come to Jackson Hole,Wyoming, from around the world to enjoy the best of cowboy and mountain culture.

VOA: special.2009.02.16

"I brought in two mountain bikes that my wife and I have ridden for the past ten years.

VOA: special.2009.11.16

Warming temperatures are also threatening the many kinds of plants and animals that live in this mountain ecosystem.

VOA: special.2009.04.22

" ...on account of the number of pine trees that grow in the gorge of the mountain in which it is situated.

VOA: special.2010.04.26