* Mount Charleston, Nevada, the highest mountain in the Spring Mountain Range

By definition, Greater Las Vegas is a tectonic valley, surrounded by four mountain ranges, with nearby Mount Charleston being the highest elevation at, located to the northwest.

Other than the forests on Mount Charleston, the geography in Clark County is a desert.

** Mount Pleasant Historic District ( Mount Pleasant, South Carolina ), listed on the NRHP in Charleston County, South Carolina

" The Awendaw Fire Department provides fire and life safety services including: Medical First Responder, Rural Search & Rescue, Auto Extrication, Wildland Fire Suppression, Fire Inspection and Public Fire Education services to the citizens of the unincorporated areas of Charleston County north of Mount Pleasant.

Mount Charleston is an unincorporated town and census-designated place in Clark County, Nevada, United States.

Named for Mount Charleston, the highest point in the area, the town is in a valley of the Spring Mountains to the northwest of Las Vegas, noted for its hiking trails, and for the Mount Charleston Lodge, a rustic hotel.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the census-designated place ( CDP ) of Mount Charleston ( which may not coincide exactly with the town boundaries ) has a total area of, all of it land.

* Mount Charleston Town Advisory Board

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In 1929, Grace Memorial Bridge was built between Charleston and Mount Pleasant to allow automobile traffic to reach the island.

Mount Pleasant is included within the Charleston-North Charleston Urbanized Area and is the 3rd largest municipality in this metro area behind Charleston and North Charleston.

* 1969 – Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708 crashes into Mount Whitney killing all on board.

It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.

The highest peak in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney at 14, 505 feet ( 4, 421 m ), lies within the Sierra Nevada.

* Mount Langley in the Sierra Nevada

It also contains redwood forests, along with the Sierra Nevada including Yosemite Valley and Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta ( the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington ), and the northern half of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions.

The Sierra Nevada contains Yosemite Valley, famous for its glacially-carved domes, and Sequoia National Park, home to the largest trees on Earth, the giant sequoia trees, and the highest point in the contiguous United States, Mount Whitney.

* Mount Airy, Nevada

The Long Now Foundation has purchased the top of Mount Washington near Ely, Nevada which is surrounded by Great Basin National Park, for the permanent storage of the full sized clock, once it is constructed.

The John Muir Trail ( JMT ) is a long-distance trail in the Sierra Nevada mountain range of California, running between the northern terminus at Happy Isles in Yosemite Valley () and the southern terminus located on the summit of Mount Whitney ().

From Tuolumne Meadows the trail turns south, running parallel to the main range of the Sierra Nevada, through Yosemite National Park, Inyo and Sierra national forests ( including the John Muir Wilderness and Ansel Adams Wilderness ), passing through Devils Postpile National Monument, Kings Canyon National Park, and ending on Mount Whitney in Sequoia National Park.

Mount Muir located one mile south of Mount Whitney in the Sierra Nevada ( U. S .) | High Sierra of California.

The granite that forms Mount Whitney is part of the Sierra Nevada batholith.

* Hawthorne Nevada Airlines Flight 708: a plane that crashed into the side of Mount Whitney in 1969, killing all 35 on board.

Pyramid Lake in Nevada represented the Sea of Galilee, Lake Moab in Utah was used to film the Sermon on the Mount, and California ’ s Death Valley was the setting of Jesus ’ 40-day journey into the wilderness.

Following a failed attempt in 1935 to make the first ascent of the remote, icy Mount Waddington in British Columbia, with a Sierra Club group, Brower added winter climbing to his expertise and made multiple first winter ascents of peaks in the Sierra Nevada.

Popular options include the Sierra Nevada, Wasatch, Tetons, and White Mountains of New England, the American birthplace of the sport at Mount Washington's Tuckerman Ravine.

Of course, while in this vicinity you won't want to miss a visit to Mount Rushmore National Memorial where on the side of a mountain are the famous sculptures of Presidents Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.

Forty miles farther north is Mount Moosilauke, Dartmouth's own mountain.

* 1942 – World War II: The flag of Nazi Germany is installed atop the Mount Elbrus, the highest peak of the Caucasus mountain range.

According to the Book of Exodus, God instructed Moses on Mount Sinai during his 40-day stay upon the mountain within the thick cloud and darkness where God was ( Ex.

The highest elevations of Mount Kinabalu are home to the Kinabalu mountain alpine meadow, an alpine shrubland notable for its numerous endemic species, including many orchids.

Mount Musala () in the Rila mountain in Bulgaria is the highest.

Based on Dravidian architecture, it was designed as a pyramid representing the structure of the universe: the highest level at the center of the temple represented Mount Meru, the home of the Hindu gods, with the five towers on the highest level representing the five peaks of the mountain.

Khmer temples were typically enclosed by a concentric series of walls, with the central sanctuary in the middle ; this arrangement represented the mountain ranges surrounding Mount Meru, the mythical home of the gods.

The five peaks of Mount Meru were taken to exhibit this arrangement, and Khmer temples was arranged accordingly in order to convey a symbolic identification with the sacred mountain.

A famous tympanum from Banteay Srei depicts Shiva sitting on Mount Kailasa with his consort, while the demon king Ravana shakes the mountain from below.

sometimes referred to as ' the hinge of Africa ;' throughout the country there are areas of thermal springs and indications of current or prior volcanic activity ; Mount Cameroon, the highest mountain in Sub-Saharan west Africa, is an active volcano

As examples of this theme, Stookey includes the revelation of the Ten Commandments on Mount Sinai, Christ's ascent of a mountain to deliver his Sermon on the Mount, and Christ's ascension into Heaven from the Mount of Olives.

* The Sierra de Neiba, with Mount Neiba the highest mountain with 2, 279 m. An extension to the southeast of Sierra de Neiba is the Sierra Martín García ( Loma Busú, 1, 350 m ).

Mount Sodom, Israel, showing the so-called " Lot's Wife " pillar made of halite like the rest of the mountain.

** Mount Vancouver, eighth highest mountain in Canada

Within Lebanon and on its border with Syria, the bright white is snow covering the mountain peaks of Mount Lebanon and Mount Hermon.

Also located in the northern region is the island's tallest mountain, Mount Pelineon, at.

According to some, the modern name of the mountain is Diaforti ( Gell gives " Dioforti " or " Dioforte "), which is presumed to consist of two Greek words: " Dias ", the name of Zeus in modern Greek, and " fero ," a verb meaning " I bring ," thus meaning that Mount Lykaion is a mountain that brings Zeus.

Mount Logan is the highest mountain in Canada and the second-highest peak in North America, after Mount McKinley ( Denali ).