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And the metaphor is clear: you go into the mountain as an individual, but through exhaustion, through sacrifice, you emerge as a community that has once again reaffirmed its sense of place in the planet.
Top of the mountain mining flooded that road, and now the only way for Jason to get to the patient living in that house with black lung disease is to drive his SUV against the current up that creek.
John Henry, called the steel-driving man in the 19th century African American folk legend, was pitted in a race against a steam-powered hammer bashing a tunnel through mountain rock.
There ain't no hammer that's on this mountain that ring like mine, boy, that ring like mine.
Unconcerned, praetor Claudius Glaber took an army of three thousand men to the rebel’s refuge at Mount Vesuvius, and blocked off the only passage up the mountain.
My mom was born in a small mountain village in central Italy, where her parents had land and sheep.
And the angels shout, "Escape to the mountain.
And so we decided to go to the nearby quarries to better understand the process that transforms a mountain into a perfectly square tile that you buy from a supplier.
I have been to the mountain top.
And they're all praying to the mountain gods as they go into trance.
And in the oceans, there are the longest mountain ranges on the planet.
We're going to look at the mid-ocean ridge, a 40,000-mile long mountain range.
We make maps of these mountain ranges with sound, with sonar, and this is one of those mountain ranges.
On either side of us are mountain ranges that are higher than the Alps, so the setting here is very dramatic.
DG: All this stuff is happening along that 40,000-mile long mountain range that we're calling the ribbon of life, because just even today, as we speak, there's life being generated there from volcanic activity.
There were other forces at work, too, shaping this historical patchwork: for example, topography, whether a place faces north or south or it's on a ridge top or in a valley bottom; elevation, how far up the mountain it is; and weather, whether a place gets a lot of snow and rain, sunlight and warmth.
Fires were frequent here, and when they occurred, they weren't that severe, while further up the mountain, in the moist and the cold forests, trees were more densely grown and fires were less frequent, but when they occurred, they were quite a bit more severe.
He meant back beyond that mountain of trash, back in the legal city, of legal buildings, with legal leases and legal rights.
I am a white, able-bodied guy sitting nearly at the peak of privilege mountain.
But, legend has it that there was one obstacle that even the impressive Khan couldn’t overcome: A towering wall of ice, grown by locals across a mountain pass to stop the Khan’s armies from invading their territory.
No one knows how historically accurate that particular story is, but remarkably, it draws on fact: For centuries, in the Karakoram and Himalayan mountain ranges, people have been growing glaciers and using these homemade bodies of ice as sources of drinking water and irrigation for their crops.
At the confluence of three great mountain ranges, the Himalayas, Karakoram, and Hindu Kush, some local cultures have believed for centuries that glaciers are alive.
Touched by her willingness to risk her life for him, the Old Man permitted her to leave the mountain with the immortal herb.
SD: Yeah, this is one of the members of our team, Lindy Blackburn, and he's sitting with half the data recorded at the Large Millimeter Telescope, which is atop a 15,000-foot mountain in Mexico.
So the obvious answer was, we need a mountain.
You don't want just any mountain.
You need absolutely the right mountain if you're going to have a clock for 10,000 years.
And we got to thinking for various reasons it ought to be a desert mountain, so we got looking in the dry areas of the Southwest.
So last June, the Long Now board, some staff and some donors and advisors, made a two-week expedition to the mountain to explore it and investigate, one, if it's the right mountain, and two, if it's the right mountain, how it might actually work for us.
It might be a piece of a core drill of the mountain.
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