His eighteen sixty-six painting "Yosemite Valley" gave many people on the East Coast their first introduction to California's beautiful mountain area.

VOA: special.2009.05.01

Since nineteen fifty-three, more than ten thousand people have attempted to climb to the top of the world's highest mountain.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

The workers made good progress on the project until they started working near Big Bend Mountain in West Virginia.

VOA: special.2009.02.21

The eastern state of Vermont is proud of its beautiful Green Mountains so it calls itself the Green Mountain State.

VOA: special.2009.08.23

Some of them are paths made in the early nineteen hundreds by men who climbed the mountain to cut trees.

VOA: special.2009.07.20

Here they can see Waimoku Falls where water drops one hundred twenty meters down the face of a mountain.

VOA: special.2010.09.08

Climbers can survive above eight thousand meters because they spend months climbing on the mountain to get used to the conditions.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

He had been on the first exploratory trip to the mountain that had mapped the way up from the southern side.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

Here is the Yonder Mountain String Band at the thirtieth anniversary of the Telluride Bluegrass Festival six years ago.

VOA: special.2009.06.08

On the fourth day of battle, Marines fought to the top of Mount Suribachi, the tallest mountain on Iwo Jima.

VOA: special.2011.05.30

At the time, scientists believed that a person at the top of the mountain would only have enough oxygen to sleep.

VOA: special.2010.06.30

She read a book about the wild mountain gorillas of central Africa written by American zoologist George Schaller.

VOA: special.2011.01.23

Leaders of the European Union say they will help Greece as it struggles under a mountain of debt.

VOA: special.2010.02.12

Today,scientists say a person dropped on the top of the mountain would live no more than ten minutes.

VOA: special.2010.06.30