Mount Sopris ( 12, 953 ft ) sits at the northwest end of the range and dominates the skyline of the lower Roaring Fork Valley and the town of Carbondale, serving as an unofficial symbol of the area.

It lies on the long ridge connecting the heart of the Elk Mountains with Mount Sopris to the northwest.

Mount Sopris is notable for having two summits, East Sopris and West Sopris, that are one-half mile ( 0. 8 km ) apart and have exactly the same elevation of 12, 965 feet.

In 2011 J. P. McDaniels petitioned to rename East Sopris " Mount John Denver " after the Colorado singer.

Mount Sopris dominates the skyline of Carbondale and the lower Roaring Fork Valley, serving as an unofficial symbol of the area.

The Mount Sopris Trail ascends to East Sopris via its east ridge.

* Live Mount Sopris webcam.

* Mount Sopris on Summitpost, an excellent article with many further links

* Rock Glacier on Mount Sopris at NASA Earth Observatory

Mount Sopris and the Roaring Fork River serve as symbols of the Roaring Fork Valley.

Mount Sopris dominates the lower ( northwest ) end of the valley and serves as an unofficial symbol of the region.

The highway roughly follows the Roaring Fork River along its entire route, offering scenic views of Mount Sopris in the lower end of the valley.

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

And on the summit of Mount Washington, where thirty-five degrees below zero is commonplace and the wind velocity has registered higher than anywhere else in the world, there is a kind of wisdom to be found that other men often seek in the Himalayas `` because it is there ''.

Aquarius is also sometimes identified with Ganymede, a youth in Greek mythology who was taken to Mount Olympus by Zeus to act as cup-carrier to the gods.

Mount Ararat, at the highest point in Turkey, is located in the Anti-Taurus.

* 1934 – The strongest surface wind gust in the world at 231 mph, is measured on the summit of Mount Washington, New Hampshire.

The largest of these, Mount Aragats, high, is also the highest point in Armenia.

Adelaide is north of the Fleurieu Peninsula, on the Adelaide Plains between the Gulf St Vincent and the low-lying Mount Lofty Ranges which surround the city.

The usual Eastern arrangement is exemplified in the plan of the convent of the Great Lavra, Mount Athos.

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

In the text, he is credited with winning the battle of Mount Badon.

At no great distance east of this rift-valley is Mount Kilimanjaro-with its two peaks Kibo and Mawenzi, the latter being, and the culminating point of the whole continent — and Mount Kenya, which is.

The city centre is laid out on two perpendicular axes: a water axis stretching along Lake Burley Griffin, and a ceremonial land axis stretching from Parliament House on Capital Hill north-eastward along ANZAC Parade to the Australian War Memorial at the foot of Mount Ainslie.

The larger scheme of Canberra's layout is based on the three peaks surrounding the city, Mount Ainslie, Black Mountain, and Red Hill.

The main symmetrical axis of the city is along ANZAC Parade and roughly on the line between Mount Ainslie and Bimberi Peak.

The precise alignment of ANZAC parade is between Mount Ainslie and Capital Hill ( formally Kurrajong Hill ).

Its highest rise is the conical Mount Oros ( 531 m ) in the south, and the Panhellenian ridge stretches northward with narrow fertile valleys on either side.

When the Olympian shakes the aegis, Mount Ida is wrapped in clouds, the thunder rolls and men are struck down with fear.

The clouds which strike Kathiawar and Kutch are deprived of a great deal of their moisture by the hills in those countries ( now the majority of this region is in Gujarat state within independent India ), and the greater part of the remainder is deposited on Mount Abu and the higher slopes of the Aravalli Range, leaving but little for Merwara, where the hills are lower, and still less for Ajmer.

Capp is buried in Mount Prospect Cemetery in Amesbury, Massachusetts.

Other such breast mountains are Mount Elgon on the Uganda-Kenya border, Beinn Chìochan and the Maiden Paps in Scotland, the " Bundok ng Susong Dalaga " ( Maiden's breast mountains ) in Talim Island, Philippines, the twin hills known as the Paps of Anu ( Dá Chích Anann or the breasts of Anu ), near Killarney in Ireland, the 2, 086 m high Tetica de Bacares or " La Tetica " in the Sierra de Los Filabres, Spain, and Khao Nom Sao in Thailand, Cerro Las Tetas in Puerto Rico and the Breasts of Aphrodite in Mykonos, among many others.

When the floor of the Dead Sea dropped further due to tectonic forces, the salt mounts of Lisan and Mount Sodom stayed in place as high cliffs.

There are several high mountains including Mount Tabor and Mount Meron in the region, which have relatively low temperatures and high rainfall.

Due to its high rainfall ( 900 – 1200 mm ), mild temperatures and high mountains ( Mount Meron's elevation is 1, 000 – 1, 208 metres ), the upper Galilee region contains some unique flora and fauna: prickly juniper ( Juniperus oxycedrus ), Lebanese cedar ( Cedrus libani ), which grows in a small grove on Mount Meron, cyclamens, paeonias and Rhododendron ponticum which sometimes appears on Meron.

The skyline is dominated by Mount Wellington at 1, 271 metres ( 4, 170 ft ) high.

* 1991 – Mount Pinatubo explodes generating an ash column high.

On the high mountains, such as Mount Kenya, Mount Elgon and Kilimanjaro, the weather can become bitterly cold for most of the year.

* Plateau in the Tau Ceti system is Venus-like, with a plateau ( called Mount Lookitthat ), half the size of California, rising high enough out of the dense atmosphere to be habitable.

The 680m high hill there is named for him and is called Halley's Mount.

The highest peak is Mount Liamuiga, formerly Mount Misery, a dormant volcano 1, 156 m high.

Turkey's highest peak, Mount Ararat ( Ağrı Dağı ) — 5, 137 meters high — is situated near the point where the boundaries of the four countries meet.

However the most important site of worship to Tlaloc was on the peak of Mount Tlaloc, a 4100 metres high mountain on the eastern rim of the Valley of Mexico.

** 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead.

Mount Fuji is 3. 776 kilometres ( 3, 776 metres ) high

* c. 5677 BC: Cataclysmic volcanic explosion of high Mount Mazama creates Oregon's Crater Lake when the resulting caldera fills with water.

Burgoyne realized the tactical advantage of the high ground, and had his troops haul cannons to the top of Mount Defiance.