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Mountain Hard Wear is proud to introduce the Refugium Jacket, a clothing article well worth the attention of every person living in a place where cold strikes at least once a year. Those who also own an iPod might be even more enticed by the product, whose specifications include a ten-watt power source that can recha... |
29 September 2009
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Oxygen deprivation can lead to a condition known as brain swelling – or cerebral edema – which seems to have been the culprit in several of the yet unexplained deaths of people escalating Mount Everest, the tallest peak in the world. Thus far, these unfortunate accidents were attributed to Yeti, the snowm... |
10 December 2008
15:01 GMT |
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Many experts have voiced their concerns related to the fact that we might know more about the Moon than about the Earth's oceans. Of course, by extrapolation, Earth is less familiar to us than it should be, and perhaps this has perpetuated lately neglectfulness as the source of so much trouble. Here are just a c... |
25 November 2008
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Situated in Chihuahua, Mexico, the Giant Cave of Crystals is abundant in selenite (gypsum) crystals which have reached lengths of 50 feet (15 meters) and weights of 50 tons.The breath-taking Chihuahua cave is the largest crystal one ever found. These wonderful crystals are located in big “pockets”, a... |
26 September 2008
11:13 GMT |
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A 2007 poll in which 100 million people participated included the Inca city of Machu Picchu amongst the world's new 7 wonders. Machu Picchu is shrouded in mystery, situated as it is on the top of the Andes at 4,000 m (13,300 ft) altitude. At the same time, it could have been an astronomic observatory and religio... |
24 April 2008
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The Sino-Tibetan mountainous chain, also called the "the Alps of Sichuan", are located between Tibet and China. The highest peak is Gongga (7,556 m or 25,186 ft), China's highest peak outside Himalaya, located in the Hengduan Mountains. The Sino-Tibetan chain is the place on Earth where the terrestrial crust exp... |
11 April 2008
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Ethiopia is the only African country that kept its own language and writing for over 25 centuries and the only African country with a strictly national writing system. Christianity rooted in Ethiopia starting the 4th century. The kingdom of Aksum was at its peak. Ezana, the most illustrious king of this dynasty, chos... |
8 April 2008
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According to new computer simulations, not only rocky moons and planets may have distinctive topographic features such as mountains, but neutron stars may have them as well. The rotational spin around their axis could produce so powerful distortions in the fabric of space-time that they could actually lead to gravita... |
1 April 2008
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Ancient Greeks and Egyptians talked about the Mountains of the Moon as the source of the Nile River. Indeed, the Ruwenzori Mountains, located between Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, represent the highest water source for the Nile (with peaks over 16,000 ft (4,900 m)) and one of the few equatorial mountains ... |
26 March 2008
05:01 GMT |
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We are losing our mountain glaciers, and we're losing them increasingly fast. A report made by the World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), supported by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), shows that the speed of glacier melting has increased by more than twice from 1980, being a serious clime change ... |
21 March 2008
05:47 GMT |
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Australia is the lowest and flattest continent. Some mountains punctuate its relief, but they could be seen as mere hills in other areas. For example, the highest Australian peak is Kosciusko (New South Wales): 2,230 m (7,430 ft) tall.Yet, they attract mountaineering amateurs and, during the winter, they are the only... |
19 March 2008
16:41 GMT |
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These people are said to descend from the soldiers of Alexander the Great, stranded and established in foreign lands. Kalash people call the peak of the mountains with a word that does not require explanations: Olympus. The discovery in the '80s of Greek inscriptions in a former Kalash area in Afghanistan furthe... |
18 March 2008
16:46 GMT |
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1. Tibet is a large territory (about one third that of the US) comprising a large part of the Himalaya mountain chain. It is the highest country in the world, most of the territory being located at altitudes of 3,000-4,000 m (10,000-13,330 ft), while the mountain peaks overpass 8,000 m (26,660 ft). It would be a col... |
20 February 2008
14:31 GMT |
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The name Tepui ("house of gods") comes from the language of the Pemon Indians and refers to the table-top mountain encountered only in the Guayana highlands of northern South America. Tepuis are isolated mountains, rising abruptly from the rain forest or savanna, and not forming chains, things that makes them have of... |
15 February 2008
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1. Japan is an archipelago made of 4 large islands: Honshū (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyūshū and Hokkaidō, and by numerous small islands and islets. The center of the country is crosses by the Japanese Alps, volcanic mountains that make 80 % of the surface of the country and which reach the highe... |
14 February 2008
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Together with the bighorn sheep, the mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) is one of the symbols of the Rocky Mountains, inhabiting their rough and barren cliffs and executing amazing stunts amongst the rocks. Today, no more than 5,000 mountain goats are found, about 1,500-2,000 being encountered in the Glacier Nationa... |
4 February 2008
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This is the elephant of all shrews. Africans call them sengi, Europeans call them elephant shrews because they resemble giant shrews with long trunk-like flexible snouts. Surprisingly, they were right in a proportion of 50%: DNA has revealed that they are indeed related to elephants, and not to actual shrews, which a... |
1 February 2008
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1. The Andes, this backbone of South America, have a length of 7,600 km (4,800 mi), covering a surface of 2 million square km (800,000 square mi), and having an average height of about 4,000 m (13,000 ft). This is the longest terrestrial mountain range (longer chains are found on the bottom of the oceans). 2. The hig... |
28 January 2008
16:07 GMT |
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Humans evolved from apes in a savanna environment. But what forced this environmental change? In a study published in the journal "Geotimes", a husband-and-wife team of geologists, at the University of Utah, shows that the uplift of the mountains from East Africa determined our emergence on Earth. "Tectonics [moveme... |
20 December 2007
04:41 GMT |
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The highest mountain in the world is Himalaya: its Chomolungma peak reaches 8,848 m (27,000 ft) in height and its next 170 peaks are all over 7,000 m (23,300 ft) tall, being the next on the worldwide scale! The largest freestanding mountain in the world is Africa's Kilimanjaro: 5,895 m (19,650 ft) with its high... |
13 December 2007
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You could not put this one into an armadillo race. In fact, you could not hold it. That's because ancient armadillos were really big. Now, an American team has described in the "Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology" a new large fossil species based on a partial skeleton discovered up in the Andes in northern Chile... |
13 December 2007
05:23 GMT |
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In a historical aspect, the “Bible” talks about the Queen of Sheba (named Makeda in the Ethiopian tradition and Bilqis in the Islamic tradition), who traveled to Jerusalem to behold the fame of the wise King Solomon, with a very large equipage of camels carrying large amounts of spices, gold and gemstones. Many r... |
8 December 2007
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Yeti, also called the "abominable snowman", represents the most fascinating legend of the Himalaya. Stories tell about a huge ape-like creature, bipedal (walking on two feet), with small ears and long red hair. And the stories do not originate from the territory of Himalaya, but they also come from the mountains of ... |
3 December 2007
02:56 GMT |
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Gorillas split from the branch that evolved towards humans and chimps about 10 million years ago, thus gorillas are equally related to us as to chimps. Gorillas have been split in two species. Western gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) have silverback males (the male leader of a gorilla family has the back whitish) with a ve... |
26 November 2007
16:05 GMT |
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It is considered the roof of Africa. When German missionaries reported in 1848 a snow-covered mountain in equatorial Africa, everybody in Europe laughed. But later expedition confirmed this. Kilimanjaro is located in northeastern Tanzania, close to the border with Kenya, standing at only 3 degrees south of Equator (3... |
21 November 2007
10:36 GMT |
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The rarity and the tame look of the giant panda, resembling a living teddy bear, transformed this animal into the symbol of the fight for the preservation of endangered species. But have you ever thought that what you see is a bear? An odd bear, but a real bear! The line that led to panda appeared about 12 million ye... |
27 October 2007
07:38 GMT |
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This is the emblematic animal for our planet's endangered fauna. But during the last 15 years, the situation has improved: the population of giant pandas has grown from 1,100 to 1,600. A 40 % increase, over a territory of 23,000 square km. Panda requires not altered/slightly altered environments, in the middle m... |
15 September 2007
13:46 GMT |
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"Theater of a continuous war". This is how an English historian described the Caucasus region two hundred years ago. In 1832, the Russian poet wrote about the Chechens: "Their most priced right is their freedom; their law and the war". The will of breaking off any yoke and the readiness for combat helped the Chechens... |
6 September 2007
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Antarctica is the continent of the superlatives: the coldest (the record: - 94.5o C), the driest (20 mm annually), the remotest and the highest continent, with an average height of 2,450 m or 8,170 ft (the second highest continent, Asia is just 960 m (3,200 ft) high). The Transantarctic Mountains across the frozen co... |
25 July 2007
03:55 GMT |
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This living fossil was thought to have been extinct. Till recently, an expedition on Papua's Cyclops Mountains revealed that the egg-laying mammal, baptized after the famous TV naturalist Sir David Attenborough, is still alive, as proven by burrows and tracks. Attenborough's long-beaked echidna is known to ... |
17 July 2007
07:17 GMT |
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Conquering the Everest will soon cease to be an adventure. The Chinese government is going to build a "highway" on Mount Everest to ease the access of the Olympic torch on this course. The road will have a length of about 108 km (67 km) and will cost approximately $ 20 millions. The project will turn a 108-km rough r... |
19 June 2007
12:41 GMT |
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This is the roof of the world. The way the highest mountainous chain (Himalaya) and plateau (Tibet) on Earth have formed has always fascinated scientists. Cornell geologist Larry Brown is lead-researcher of an international seismic profiling team that has been working for more than 15 years in Tibet, using explosion... |
7 May 2007
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If you look on a world map, you will see a huge brown arch, 2,700 km (1,700 mi) long, stretching from Indus to Brahmaputra, and 250-500 km (140-280 mi) wide crossing the Asian continent. This is Himalaya mountain chain. It is also called "the Roof of the World" as here are located the 14 highest peaks in the world, a... |
22 March 2007
10:51 GMT |
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The Andes are the backbone of South America, a symbol were the greatest civilization in the New World emerged, namely the Inca Empire. Now a team of Australian geophysicists believe they might have solved the long-standing puzzle of how the Andes mountain range emerged. By making the first 3D simulations of the way c... |
15 March 2007
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