E.g., Mauna Kea in Hawaii is tallest when measured from its base with height over 10,200 m (33,464.6 ft), but only attains 4,205 m (13,796 ft) above sea level. By the same measure of base to summit, Denali, in Alaska, also known as Mount McKinley, is taller than Everest as...
Is the Maunakea summit the best place to go stargazing? For astronomers yes, but for the general public the summit is strangely enough not that good. Human vision does not work that well at the high elevation of the summit, and you can see the stars better with the naked eye from the...
The tallest mountain in the world, Mauna Kea, is located in Hawaii. It is about twice the base to peak height of Mount Everest and if measured from the seafloor is over 32,000 ft high. Tourists misspelled Pennsylvania as “Pensylvania” on the Liberty Bell, which they can now see in P...
It is very cold up there so I am so glad the tour company provides us thick jacket with hood, plus gloves. Closed toe shoes do protect against the weather and for walking up and down the summit. This tour allows 4 hours in Mauna Kea, that sounds long but it is not...
The Highland Scenic Highway is a 43-mile corridor through the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia. Enjoy a sack lunch on the grassy banks of Summit Lake and, if you have a fishing pole in the trunk, consider fishing for trout. Take a second stop at the Falls of Hills Creek, ...
Though it includes a slew of smaller telescopes that scan the heavens from the summit of Cerro Tololo, the king of the hill is the Victor M. Blanco Telescope, a 4-meter-aperture instrument that’s engaged in the Dark Energy Survey. The mission of this effort is to understand the nature ...
ISSYP – The International Summer School for Young Physicists is a two-week program for high school students with a keen interest in theoretical physics who intend to pursue physics at the university level.Fermi – The Fermi Summer School is located in Delaware, USA, and focuses on analysing ...
A volcanic crater is the opening of the conduit conveying magma to the surface. Typically it's a relatively small concavity marking a vent, as at the main summit of a volcano. Far larger is a caldera, which basically is a ruined or collapsed crater formed from an explosive eruption or sim...
Western South Dakota is close enough to the Rocky Mountains that the Chinook winds can make a day in January as warm as spring. For a couple of days anyway, until a storm drops a foot of snow. In the east, our weather is more similar to Minnesota than Rapid City. When it gets cold...
Helena in a mining camp, on January 20th, 1954. This is also a national record for the lower 48 states. You can see aroadside designator marking the spot- or close to it if you travel Montana highway 200 providing the shortest route between the cities of Great Falls and Missoula, ...