Ojos del Salado – Chile’s High Point South America’s tallest peak is Argentina’s Aconcagua, the crown of the mighty Andes. The continent’s preeminent mountain range serves as the border between Argentina and Chile. Aconcagua is just seven miles from Chile and is much closer to Santiago – just under 70 miles – than it is […]
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Oklahoma Has Mountains! It’s always dangerous to assume stereotypes are true or, at the very least, absolute. The states in the Great Plains have earned reputations as flat, featureless bread baskets. In some ways, this standing is accurate. The majority of agriculture in the United States comes from this region. However, digging into the statistics
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The Mountain Is Coming and We Must Go For many who feel the call of the mountains, living amongst the Alps in Switzerland might be Edenic. If you lived in Blatten, one of four tiny villages in the Lötschental, a valley in the Bernese Alps, you could wake up every day to see these views
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Vinicunca, Rainbow Mountain About 60 miles (100 kilometers) southeast of Cusco, among the Andes of Peru, sits a mountain revered in Incan mythology. Hispanicized as Ausangate, this gorgeous peak rises 20,945 feet (6,384 meters) above sea level. The Incas believed Ausengate was one of a dozen sacred Apu, a god or spirit in the form
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Mount Kosciuszko – Australia’s High Point The Outback looms over most foreign conceptions of Australia. This hot, arid expanse covers most of the continent and is filled with few humans and many things that might kill humans. It’s one of the gnarliest stretches on the planet, granting Australia an unforgiving natural reputation. It might seem
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Taranaki Maunga, the Mountain Person New Zealand is a nation of two main islands, north and south. Though the South Island contains the country’s 18 tallest peaks, the North Island packs a few skyscrapers. Top in the north is Ruapehu, which rises 9,177 feet (2,797 meters) above sea level. The second-highest peak on the North
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Vinson Massif – Antarctica’s High Point Earth’s basement – Antarctica – is most famous for the South Pole and being extraordinarily cold. The pole put a massive target on the continent for adventurers, leading to the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. The planet’s harshest climate caused those explorations to be rather gnarly. One of the two expeditions that
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Mount Elbrus – Russia and Europe’s High Point When it comes to mountains, Europe is nearly synonymous with the Alps. Those majestic, stark crags might be the world’s most beautiful and they include the planet’s most recognizable peak, the Matterhorn. Despite its robustness, Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, is not the highest point in Europe.
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Artificial Intelligence – Part III [Editor’s Note: This article is the third in a series chronicling the potential for artificial intelligence to craft this project. Each year, we ask ChatGPT to write an issue on mountains and provide the imagery with Midjourney. Everything that follows is unedited and not crafted by humans (other than
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Four Different Mountains Are the Tallest on Earth What’s the highest point on our planet? This bit of trivia is likely known by many humans, not just fans of mountains. If you went into Final Jeopardy! with the lead, you would confidently scrawl “What is Mount Everest?” on your lectern and toast yourself to becoming a
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