Climbers can survive above eight thousand meters because they spend months climbing on the mountain to get used to the conditions.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

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

But the suggestion was lost on the older teenage cleaners, who raced up the mountain to start rock climbing and repelling.

VOA: standard.2010.04.01

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

Is it to be melted away by secession, as the snows of a mountain are melted away under the sun?

VOA: special.2009.04.02

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

At the time, scientists believed that a person at the top of the mountain would only have enough oxygen to sleep.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

On the fourth day of battle, Marines fought to the top of Mount Suribachi, the tallest mountain on Iwo Jima.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

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

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

VOA: special.2009.02.16

The team was to create the first map of the area and find a possible path to the top of the great mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Last month, thirteen- year-old Jordan Romero became the youngest person to reach the top of the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

In the western United States, mountain snow provides up to seventy-five percent of all surface water supplies.

VOA: special.2010.01.05

In May, a thirteen-year-old American boy became the youngest person to climb the tallest mountain on Earth.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Visitors to Zion National Park are surprised by the huge mountain structures of red, pink and white.

VOA: special.2009.04.15

But that attempt was canceled after a storm caused a giant mass of snow to slide down the mountain, killing seven ethnic Sherpa guides.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

He rode that mountain lion all the way to the camp of the Hell's Gate Gang.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

The British schoolteacher was a member of the first three trips by foreigners to the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The success of Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay led to many new attempts on the mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The company's owners said the mountain was too big to build a railroad around it.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

Land travelers can look at a mountain,or a river, or an object that shows them where they are in relation to where they came from.

VOA: special.2010.07.14

Langley Collyer was buried under what appeared to be a mountain of old newspapers.

VOA: special.2011.02.22

A man named Fred Dewey wrote to friends back home that it took him two weeks just to move his supplies from Skagway to the mountain.

VOA: special.2009.02.11