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Showing posts with label Hill. Show all posts

Friday, December 16, 2011

Cirque of the Unclimbables, located inside the Nahanni National Park Reserve, in the Northwest Territories, Canada are ragged peaks that were shaped by the last ice age, and are some of the highest in the Northwest Territories.

In 1955, the legendary mountaineer Arnold Wexler came across a spectacular series of remote cliffs in the Logan Mountains. Frustrated by their sheer granite walls, he named the jagged monsters the Cirque of the Unclimbables.

Cirque of the Unclimbables

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Bassia scoparia (synonym Kochia scoparia) is a shrub which is native to Eurasia. Its vernacular names include burning bush, ragweed, summer cypress, fireball, and Mexican fireweed.

Kochia Hill In Hitachinaka City, Japan

Sunday, December 11, 2011

The Cameron Highlands is one of Malaysia’s most extensive hill stations. It was named after William Cameron, a British surveyor who was commissioned by the then colonial government to map out the area in 1885.

In a statement concerning his mapping expedition, Cameron mentioned he saw “a vortex in the mountains, while for a (reasonably) wide area we have gentle slopes and plateau land.”

The Cameron Highlands