From Wikipedia: The Matterhorn (Fr. Mont Cervin, It. Cervino), is perhaps the most familiar mountain in the Alps. Located on the border between Switzerland and Italy, its graceful pyramid towers over the Swiss town of Zermatt and the Italian town Breuil-Cervinia in the Val Tournanche.
The mountain has four faces, facing the four compass points, with the north and south faces meeting to f...
Mount Olympus (also transliterated as Mount Olýmpos, and on modern maps, Óros Ólimbos) is the highest mountain in Greece, at 2,918 meters high; In Greek mythology, Mount Olympus is the home of the Twelve Olympians, the principal gods in the Greek pantheon
Mont Blanc (Fr., "White Mountain") or Monte Bianco (It., same meaning, also known as La Dame Blanche (the White Lady)), in the Alps, is the highest mountain in western Europe. Its height is about 4,810 metres (15,780 feet), but varies from year to year by a few metres, depending on snowfall and climate conditions.
K2 is the second highest mountain in the world. At 8,611 metres, it is only surpassed by Mount Everest. K2 is located in the Karakoram segment of the Himalayan range.
A tour along the high road to China from Rawalpindi, Pakistan to Kashgar across the 5000m high Kunjerab Pass. Takes approx 1/2 hour into the lesser Himalaya, along the Indus River, see the Nanga Parbat of the Himalayas, the Hindukush, Karakorum and Pamir Ranges.
Play the Tour with F10 but make sure no other of your placemarks are ticked.
Cerro Aucanquilcha, Chile, is one of those places where hell sometimes releases its surplus building material through a volcano. So huge is that deposit of sulfur, that it was deemed worth to tap, even if the stuff has to be brought down from 6000m altitude with the highest arial ropeway to a sulfuric acid plant (deemed for copper processing at Chuquicamata, see mining branch). The workers drov...
Licancabur is a stratovolcano which lies on the border of Chile and Bolivia near the Laguna Verde. Its last eruption happened in the Holocene.
Licancabur is a Cunza word that the indigenous people of this area used to refer to themselves as well as to the volcano.
The 70 x 90 m crater lake at the summit is believed to be the highest lake in the world, and despite air tempe...
Parícutin (or Volcán de Parícutin, also accented Paricutín) is a cinder cone volcano in the Mexican state of Michoacán, close to a lava-covered village of the same name. It appears on many versions of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. Paricutín is part of the Michoacán-Guanajuato Volcanic Field, which covers much of west central Mexico.
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Atlasova (Остров Атласов)is a member of the Northern Kuril Islands, located off the northeast coast of its larger neighbour Paramushir. The island, which sits westwards of the main northeast to southwest trending line of t...
Mount Jefferson is located in the Cascade Range between Mount Hood and Three Sisters.
From USGS.gov: Mount Jefferson (3,199 meters - 10,495 feet) is a prominent feature of the landscape seen from highways east and west of the Cascades. Mount Jefferson (one of thirteen major volcanic centers in the Cascade Range) has erupted repeatedly for hundreds of thousands of years, with its ...
From USGS.gov: Mount Shasta, a compound stratovolcano rising 3,500 meters above its base to an elevation of 4,317 meters [14,161 feet], dominates the landscape of northern California. ... Mount Shasta hosts five glaciers, including the Whitney Glacier, the largest in California. Shastina is a large subsidiary cone that rises to 3,758 meters on the west flank of the compound volcano.
From USGS.gov: Snow-clad Mount Hood (3,426 meters - 11,239 feet) dominates the Cascade skyline from the Portland metropolitan area to the wheat fields of Wasco and Sherman Counties. The mountain contributes valuable water, scenic, and recreational resources that help sustain the agricultural and tourist segments of the economies of surrounding cities and counties. Mount Hood is also one of the ...
From USGS.gov: Mount Adams, one of the largest volcanoes in the Cascade Range (3,742 meters - 12,276 feet), dominates the Mount Adams volcanic field in Skamania, Yakima, Klickitat, and Lewis counties and the Yakima Indian Reservation of south-central Washington.
The Arenal Volcano (Spanish: Volcán Arenal) is an active andesitic stratovolcano in north-western Costa Rica (10.5N, 84.7E), about 90 km north-west of San José, in the province of Alajuela. Once locally known as Mount Arenal (Cerro Arenal), Arenal was presumed extinct until July 29, 1968 when it erupted after approximately 400 years of dormancy. The eruption wiped out the town of Tabacon and ki...
Irazú is an active volcano in Costa Rica, situated in the Cordillera Central close to the city of Cartago. Its name is believed to be a corruption of Iztarú, which was the name of an indigenous village on the flanks of the volcano. Irazú has erupted frequently in historical times - at least 23 times since its first well-recorded eruption in 1723. Its most recent eruption began in 1963 and conti...
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