Mountain
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You know, when you're not dealing with the traditional pressures of earning a living and putting food on the table, raising a family, writing thank you letters, you have to now contend with answering a
mountain
of unanswered emails, updating a Facebook page, feeding your Twitter feed.
And so Oonagh hatched a cunning plan - they needed to create an illusion of size, to suggest Finn was a
mountain
of a man whilst keeping him out of sight.
So I got in my car, and I drove three hours north along the coast, and the roads grew emptier and narrower, and then I turned onto an even narrower path, barely paved, that snaked for two miles up to the top of a
mountain.
You can imagine that that's him writing in English, the same boy who came from the
mountain.
And in the
mountain
range are all of the ancient cities of that region, so Jerusalem, Bethlehem, Hebron.
And connecting the
mountain
range with the coastal plain is an area called the Shephelah, which is a series of valleys and ridges that run east to west, and you can follow the Shephelah, go through the Shephelah to get from the coastal plain to the mountains.
Neither can attack the other, because to attack the other side you've got to come down the
mountain
into the valley and then up the other side, and you're completely exposed.
So David's coming down the mountain, and he's clearly not preparing for hand-to-hand combat.
So the Israelites up on the
mountain
ridge looking down on him thought he was this extraordinarily powerful foe.
And they may well ask, why climb the highest
mountain?
We can also fly to the southern Andes to see the tree line and see exactly how the carbon geography ends as we go up into the
mountain
system.
But the caves I want to share with you today are made completely of ice, specifically glacier ice that's formed in the side of the tallest
mountain
in the state of Oregon, called Mount Hood.
Well, on a
mountain
like Hood, where it snows over 20 feet a year, it crushes the air out of it and gradually forms it into hard blue ice.
Now each year, more and more ice stacks up on top of it, and eventually it gets so heavy that it starts to slide down the
mountain
under its own weight, forming a slow-moving river of ice.
Warm water from the top of the ice is boring its way down, and warm air from below the
mountain
actually rises up, gets into the cave, and melts the ceilings back taller and taller.
But the weirdest thing about glacier caves is that the entire cave is moving, because it's formed inside a block of ice the size of a small city that's slowly sliding down the
mountain.
At the end of this hole, we found a huge tunnel going right up the
mountain
underneath thousands of tons of glacier ice.
Cold air from the top of the
mountain
was flowing down this hole and blasting through the cave, freezing everything inside of it.
Since the 2015 megatransect, we have explored all major rivers of the Okavango River basin, covering a life-changing 4,000 miles of detailed research transects on our dugout canoes and our fat-tire
mountain
bikes.
It gets us to focus on what, right now, we plan to do to address that
mountain
in our sights.
At the end of that process, after doing it for months and months, he had a
mountain
of data about how the American people feel about spaghetti sauce.
What do you think his experience is going to be when he is going down the side of a
mountain
at over 70 miles an hour as an Olympic downhill skier?
The Germans were embedded in this
mountain
hillside, rocky hillside, in impregnable caves, and three allied battalions had been pounding away at it for six months, and they were stalemated.
The 442nd was called in to add to the fight, but the men of the 442nd came up with a unique but dangerous idea: The backside of the
mountain
was a sheer rock cliff.
And it feels like, and I'm biased, it feels like they're trying to make you memorize the whole encyclopedia before they let you go out and play, and to me, I've got Wikipedia on my cell phone, and it feels like they assume you're going to be on top of some
mountain
all by yourself with a number 2 pencil trying to figure out what to do when in fact you're always going to be connected, you're always going to have friends, and you can pull Wikipedia up whenever you need it, and what you need to learn is how to learn.
He was a Bernese
mountain
dog, and my ex-husband and I adopted him, and about six months in, we realized that he was a mess.
Brahui, or Brohi, means
mountain
dweller, and it is also my language.
Instead of going
mountain
climbing when you're 82, why don't you do it next week?
And I proposed that we cut through the
mountain.
And at night, just one line of light cuts through the mountain, which is a skylight on top of that triangle.
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