Tag: Mountains

I didn’t go to the mountainous areas. I was surrounded by them while residing for a week in the great city of Tbilisi. I could see them on the hot air balloon ride, or from the cable car ride up to Turtle Lake. Oh god, not another cliche mountain metaphor. (Interestingly, my &ldqu...

The Temescal Canyon Trail, which Claire called Temescula, Pieter called Temescal, and I called a hike, was not made for children, or dogs. Here my own etymological wilderness is stretched and dried. Where it’s hard to imagine water, it’s hard to imagine growth before death. There was ...

Just north of the legendary tourist trap of Tombstone, Arizona, the Dragoon Mountains are a scenic and historically significant spot worth the effort it takes to reach them. Beautiful and imposing, they look like a giant took a handful of liquid rock and created a series of tall piles like kids s...

It’s not easy to walk away from security. Especially security that you’ve worked hard for. In my case, it took decades. See, I loved books and some time between watching Dead Poets Society and my first college literature class I decided I was going to be a professor. S...

People who book meditation retreats are either looking for answers to serious life questions or are experienced meditators seeking something more intensive. I do not fall into either of those categories. I have never believed in the practice of meditation. Sitting in one place for a long tim...

Ask any mountaineer about mountains; they will tell you mountains are a hard climb, more so if you don’t understand the mountain and don’t do it regularly. The ground is steep, stones are hard and doing the climbing is backbreaking if you are carrying too much stuff. Zen is about unburde...

As an Indigenous womyn I have lived a tumultuos life ever since I found out about the atrocities rendered against our people since the colonization of North America from reading at 13 the book “Bury my heart at wounded knee”, though not historically correct from an Indigenous perspective...

When you love scientific analysis as much as I do, even the most fantastical elements of sci-fi fantasy stories peak your curiosity. I was recently enticed while rewatching Avatar, whose world Pandora is home to breathtaking floating mountains. They’re an incredible sight to behold in the...

The Andes stretch for about 9,000 kilometers, traversing 7 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela), making it the world’s longest continuous mountain range. It spans a width of “only” 200 to 700 kilometers, resulting...

The dwarf planet Haumea, for example, has an equatorial radius that’s estimated to be double its polar radius, thanks to its incredibly rapid rotation. Since the poles are closer to the center of the planet — and hence, closer to the center of planet’s dense mass &md...