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
The company that makes Red Bull energy drink built him his own halfpipe on Silverton Mountain in Colorado.
VOA: special.2010.02.26
"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
In the mountain,the heat and dust were so thick that most men would have had trouble breathing.
VOA: special.2009.02.21
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
That was the song "Birth of Serpents" from The Mountain Goats new album "All Eternals Deck."
VOA: special.2011.04.08
John Geiger points out that these Third Man experiences are very common among mountain climbers.
VOA: special.2010.02.24
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
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
Furlong used the word "bizarre" to describe the weather on Cypress Mountain for this time of year, and added that safety comes first.
VOA: standard.2010.02.16
Smith-Valade added that the staff has literally willed Cypress Mountain into competition shape.
VOA: standard.2010.02.16
The town lay on a flat plain at the base of an Allegheny Mountain valley so steep that the hillsides rose straight upward along the Little Connemaugh River.
VOA: standard.2010.04.26
Carolyn Maloney's own tragedy struck last September, when she learned that her husband of 31 years had died on a mountain trail, during an expedition to the Himalayas.
VOA: standard.2010.08.07
Leone was hit hard by the tsunami. Last Tuesday, the usually peaceful ocean surged into a mountain of water that swept through the scenic seaside village, on the southwest side of the main island.
VOA: standard.2009.10.04
It probably would not have been as enjoyable today." Wilkinshaw added that he has only general admission standing room tickets for Wednesday's snowboard halfpipe event at Cypress Mountain, so he knows it's possible those tickets could be canceled.
VOA: standard.2010.02.16
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