Category: hiking
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Mount Ararat – Iğdır and Ağrı Provinces, Turkey – Favourite Mounts
Ararat is dormant compound volcano on the Armenian plateau in the extreme east of Turkey. The mountain has been called by the name Ararat (in the West) since the Middle Ages, as it began to be identified with “mountains of Ararat” described in the Bible as the resting place of Noah’s Ark, despite contention that…
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Mount Aetna – Sicily – Favourite Mounts
How Mountains are Measured The word mountain means different things to different people. By general agreement, geographers, and geologists define a mountainous area as one that lies at least 2,000 feet above its surroundings and its region consists of 2 or more zones of climate and plant life. They are also peak points, literally high…
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Amboseli or Hell’s Gate National Park – Kenya
Hell’s Gate National Park is named after a narrow break in the cliffs. Once believed to be a tributary of a prehistoric lake that fed early humans in the Rift Valley. It received the name “Hell’s Gate” by explorers Fisher and Thomson in 1883 for the intense geothermal activity within its boundaries, the outlet of…
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