Tag: mountain
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Mount Roraima: An island in the clouds
Mount Roraima is a tabletop mountain located in the deep rainforest of Venezuela’s Canaima National Park. It serves as the tripoint of Venezuela, Guyana, and Brazil. Mount Roraima forms the highest peak of the Pakaraima chain of Tepuis plateaus in South America, standing 9,200 feet with a 12-square-mile summit area and 1,300-foot tall cliffs. It’s no wonder…
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Norway’s stunning obelisk-shaped Stetind mountain
Stetind is a stunning obelisk-shaped mountain in Nordland county, Norway. Author and mountaineer Peter Wessel Zappfe once described its smooth, vertical, and overall distinct shape as “an anvil whereupon the Gods can hammer.” The 4,566-foot wonder became the official mountain of Norway in 2002. Sailors often use the mountain as a landmark because it rises…
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UFO, lampshade? An amazing lenticular cloud hovers over Japan’s Mount Fuji
They look like flying saucers or marshmallows. These UFO-looking lens-shaped clouds called lenticular clouds often develop near the peaks of mountains, as in the case of Mount Fuji in Japan. Lenticular clouds form when strong winds force air up and over a topographic barrier such as a mountain in a wave-like pattern. Once the rising…
