Created by collapsed volcanoes hundreds of years ago and white topped with glaciers that are millions of years old, the Ecuadorian mountain is a known landmark. With the name of The Ice Throne of God, thousands of expert climbers come from the farthest corners of the Earth to attempt to scale this giant, but few succeed. Home to hundreds of graves, and with its towering heights, it earns the title of tallest mountain in Ecuador. The Chimborazo mountain rises 2,500 m (8202.1 ft) above surrounding landscapes and was known for many years as the highest mountain on Earth, but was dethroned by the Peruvian and Himalayan peaks. This mountain is however, said to be the farthest point from the center of the Earth. This is caused by the surrounding …show more content…
Hundreds of search parties and search dogs combed the side of the Chimborazo and surrounding area, and theories arose about the fate of the SAETA 232. After 27 years, in February, 2003 a group of hikers discovered the crash and all 59 victims aboard 17,700 feet above the mountains base. The bodies of the plane crash victims were intact and almost perfectly preserved due to the high altitude and year round freezing temperatures. However, each of the bodies, as well as the plane compartments had been stripped of clothing, jewelery, wallets, valuables, and other possessions. It is unknown how long ago the bodies were discovered, or who would be too cruel to alert the authorities that they had found the victims. Furthermore, because of the early date in the crash, and the lack of security measures taken during this early flying age, there is no concrete cause of how the plane crashed into the side of the mountain, or what may have happened during that day in August. While some believe it to be only a mid-route crash, others believe it to be a guerrilla highjacking. Whatever the cause, the crash only brings attention to just how big Chimborazo is, and how many mysteries it still may
Through the study of the Peruvian society using articles like “The “Problem of the Indian...” and the Problem of the Land” by Jose Carlos Mariátegui and the Peruvian film La Boca del Lobo directed by Francisco Lombardi, it is learned that the identity of Peru is expressed through the Spanish descendants that live in cities or urban areas of Peru. In his essay, Mariátegui expresses that the creation of modern Peru was due to the tenure system in Peru and its Indigenous population. With the analyzation of La Boca del Lobo we will describe the native identity in Peru due to the Spanish treatment of Indians, power in the tenure system of Peru, the Indian Problem expressed by Mariátegui, and the implementation of Benedict Andersons “Imagined Communities”.
Stone Mountain is an igneous intrusion often referred to as a geological pluton. The granite pluton is part of the Piedmont Plateau region of the Appalachian Mountains and was formed along the same geological fault line that created the Blue Ridge Mountains but is not part of the Blue Ridge chain. Northern and Eastern Georgia have relatively frequent seismic activity with ten quakes recorded in 2013. These quakes occurred at an average depth of 9.6 km which make them less obvious and cause less property damage. This same seismic activity created Stone Mountain 300 million years ago during the last stages of the Alleghenian Orogeny when massive tectonic plate shifting allowed a large mass of magma from beneath the earth’s crust to well up . Flow structure markings on the mountain show the stone was formed underground after several eruption pulses failed to break through and then cooled to form, ultimately creating granite mass that rises 825 feet above ground, extends 9 miles underground and has a circumference of 5 miles at its base, making it the largest exposed dome in the world . Rising 1683 feet above sea level the summit of the dome is bare stone with rock pools and an unobstructed view that extends to Kennesaw Mountain, Amicacola Falls and Mt. Yonah state parks, including a breathtaking view of the Atlanta Skyline.
After the crash, the mangled twin-engine plane rested about 75 yards from the end of the runway in a marshy area. Workers carried away badly burned bodies and laid them nearby. Pieces of the plane were strewn about the crash site.
Lassen Peak, also known as Mount Lassen, is the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range. It is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc which is an arc that covers southwestern British Columbia to northern California. Located in the Shasta Cascade region of Northern California, Lassen rises 2,000 meters above the surrounding terrain and has a volume of 0.5 cubic miles, making it one of the largest lava domes on Earth. It was created on the destroyed northeastern side of now gone Mount Tehama, a stratovolcano that was at least 1,000 feet higher than Lassen Peak.
Individual growth can come in many forms, many of which involve finding your sense of place. A sense of place can be describes, in a sense, as a place where you feel like you belong, have a purpose, connect spiritually, and are familiar with. Finding where you belong usually takes a journey and a great deal of culture, history, and spiritual discovery. Momaday helps us to understand his journey by telling us a few tails of his people. Also, he tells us about his grandmother, who helped him through his journey, felt connected to, and eventually whose death pushed him to make all of the connections between what he has learned, not only about himself, but also about the tribe. He uses a poetic writing style and three different voices to drive
April 9, 1948, was a tragic day in Colombia’s history. On this day, Jorge Eliécer Gaítán, a candidate for the presidency of Colombia, was assassinated. In the 10 hour period that followed the assassination, angry mobs marched throughout the city of Bogota, looting and burning down over 100 buildings. Before the night would end, nearly 3,000 people would die in the streets. This terrible event in Colombia’s history is today referred to as the Bogotazo. This paper examines some of the underlying reasons contributing to the outbreak of this violence and the events that transpired during the Bogotazo. The paper concludes that the events leading to the violence of the Bogotazo are still present in Colombia today and will hamper its prospects for peace in the future.
First of all, one of South America’s greatest geological features is the Andes Mountains. The Andes are a major mountain range in Venezuela. The Andes mountain range is the longest mountain range in the world. To be specific, the mountain range is 4,500 miles long and 500 miles wide (Andes). The Andes stretch along the west coast of South America passing through several countries including Venezuela, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru Bolivia, Chile and Argentina. The Andes’ average elevation is 13,000 feet. One might not think this but in some places in the Andes Mountains there is snow and even glaciers. Mount Aconcagua, in Argentina, is the highest elevation of the Andes, at 22,841 feet above sea level. The Himalaya Mountains are the only other mountains that are taller than ...
Mauna Loa is Earth’s largest volcano and most massive mountain as it takes up nearly half of the flourishing landscape of the island of Hawai’i. This island is actually made up of five volcanoes, Kohala, Mauna Kea, Hualalai, Mauna Loa, and Kilauea, all in such close proximity that they fused together to form one whole island. Mauna Loa is located in the south central area of Hawai’i, in the Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park and its coordinates are 19°5' N, 155°6' W. It is 13,680 ft above sea level, but if one measures from its true base on the ocean floor, it is estimated to be 30,080 feet tall. Its name is quite fitting as it means “Tall Mountain”.
This fire volcano which is its nickname, is one of the most dangerous volcanoes in Central America. It has erupted more than thirty times since 1585. The volcanic style is explosive with many lava domes. This stratovolcano has two younger volcanoes that are growing fast. The last earthquake recorded nearby was August thirty-first two thousand and fifteen. Colima has been an active volcano since 1994. Finally the last active volcano, Popocatepetl or El Popo as some call it was dormant for fifty years until in 1994 it exploded. Since then it has been erupting and making huge explosions. This volcano's name Popocatepetl is the Aztec word for smoking mountain. It stands five thousand two hundred and forty-six meters tall. It is seventy meters southeast of Mexico city. This volcano is the second highest volcano in North America. Popocatepetl is a stratovolcano. The last time it erupted was May 8, 2013. The last earthquake recorded near Popocatepetl was on September sixteenth two thousand and fifteen. A smaller volcano that's located in northwestern Mexico is called Cerro Prieto. This volcano is a lava dome and is only one hundred and seventy-five kilometers southeast of San Diego,
Honduras has many landforms that differ from beautiful sandy beaches to furious rugged mountains. The highest point above sea level is Cerro Las Minas; it stands 2,870 meters above sea level. There is also the Sierra de la Botija mountain range which is located along the border of Honduras and Nicaragua. There are also many other mountain regions such as Cerro El Pital, Pico Bonito, Montaña Cerro Grande, and the Cerro El Eslabón. These are only a few of the Honduran mountains. Honduras has a lot of mountains and some mountain ranges.
The United States currently has many volcanoes, particularly in the Cascade Mountain Range, which includes Mount St. Helens, Mount Rainer, and Crater Lake. Volcanoes have three common features such as craters, caldera, and geysers and hot springs. A caldera is a huge depression that is formed after the eruption from the collapse of a partially emptied magma chamber. In the last million years, ten major caldera formed after eruptions, which included Crater Lake in Oregon. Mount Mazama, also known as Crater Lake, was a large composite volcano that was constructed by the episodic growth of many overlapping shield and composite volcanoes, each of which probably was active for a comparatively brief period, and Mount Mazama has not erupted in 7,700
Mission San Juan Capistrano is a mission like no other. Mission San Juan Capistrano was founded in 1775 and in 1776. Serra’s Chapel was the first permanent building. It was made out of Adobe brick instead of wood. Local native Americans helped build the mission and hang the bells. The people worked for 8 days then stopped. They buried the mission. The people came back the next year to dig out and rebuild the mission. A neat fact about San Juan Capistrano is the brand of their livestock is the letters C,A and P twisted together. San Juan Capistrano is called the jewel of the missions. This unique mission is not an ordinary, everyday mission.
Furthermore, some writers believe that the mountain was named by the Spanish. Since the first visitors from Europe were Spanish, Fray Marcos de Niza in 1539. Fray observed that the mountain from the Gila River, but did not either record the mountain in his journal or walk around it. The author of “The Lost Dutchman Mine,” Ely Sims, stated in the beginning chapter of his book that the Spaniards named Superstition Mountain ‘Sierra de espuma’ implying a "mountain of foam." The derivation of this name emerges to be a forest examination map that L.P. Landon drew in 1918. Landon gave the name to a small butte southwest of Superstition Mountain. Sierra Supersticiones became visible on armed forces’ field draft maps of the area as early as May of 1866. The first time it came into view on authorized military map was in 1870 (Ely, 1966).
Flight 370 was an international passenger flight that went missing on March 8, 2014. The flight was scheduled in route to Beijing, but it went missing throughout the second day after the plane took off from Kuala National Airport. At approximately 1:21 p.m., the communications and transponder signal were functioning no longer. There were no emergency calls at the time the plane had its last checkpoint. On March 24 at approximately 10p.m.Malaysia Standard Time, officials ceased the search as radio signals picked up debris found throughout a remote Indian Ocean. It is believed that all of the 239 passengers on the plane died (Preimesberger). From protests and outcries, to mourning and fallouts, it is still a distraught event that shocked the world.
For those who like winter sports like skiing and snowboarding, we have just the perfect place- the remote yet very popular mountain resort called Balea Lake.