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While the Sherpa people retain their Buddhist religion and many of their traditional practices, this shift in the local economy and way of life has necessarily meant changes in the Sherpa culture. Among these, there has been a shift from regarding climbing the mountain as blasphemous, to regardin...
He has summited peaks throughout the Americas, trekked through Africa, and tested his endurance in 24-hour trail races as well as 6 marathons. On average, he runs 30-50 miles a week in the foothills of Northern Colorado. His research is regularly cited in The New York Times, Washington ...
The San Luis Valley of Coloradois the largest alpine valley on earth. The Valley floor is approximately 7500 feet above sea-level and surrounded by beautiful mountain peaks many of which are 14,000 foot tall. It is the highest valley in the world capable of sustaining agriculture. What is a...
To the north and west, the snow-capped ridge of the Continental Divide pokes up like the peaks on a meringue pie; to the southwest juts the Sangre de Cristo Range. On really clear days, you can look east across Colorado to Kansas.It's a good idea to get to the top before noon--...
There is a "speed limit," on sustained wind speed, called maximum potential intensity, but it is not absolute: It is dictated by several factors, including the heat present in the ocean. Current calculations of the maximum potential intensity for storms typically peaks around 200 mph (322 km...
One drawback of traditional grid-tied solar energy systems is that consumers use most of their electricity in the morning and evening, while solar power production peaks in the middle of the day. In essence, homeowners sell their daytime energy to the utility and buy it back at night. In ...
King sheepishly added the following to the Mount Whitney chapter of his bookMountaineering in the Sierra Nevada: The preceding pages were written immediately after my return from Mount Whitney, and without a shadow of suspicion that among the sea of peaks half seen, half storm-hidden, I could ...
(elevation approximately 14,000 ft) is a high mountain range in the Rocky Mountains of central Colorado in the United States. The peaks of the range form a ridge running north-south for approximately 40 miles (64 km) from southern Summit County on the north end, then along the boundary ...
A tiny aperture can create a landscape picture where the plants in the foreground and the mountain peaks in the background are both in sharp focus. This picture calls attention to everything and nothing at the same time. A large aperture create a narrow depth of focus. In this photo, a ...