English survey teams, sent out to map Britain's expanding influence in 19th-century India, first reported the astounding heights of the Himalayas, the youngest, highest and most formidable range in the world.
Using pocket drone devices, travellers can now take shots from novel angles and astounding heights.
On the sterile hardpan soils of those astounding forests, the trees may reach full maturity at under 0.2 metre (0.7 foot) in height, while individuals of the same species on richer, deeper soils can grow to more than 30 metres (98 feet).
And while $470 billion is astounding, it is not unprecedented (during the 1990s boom, companies like Microsoft, Cisco, and GE reached that height).
But for anyone who cares about food, and the astounding ways its ingredients can be made to work together and lift one another to improbable heights, Cucharamama is a necessary destination, up there with the best this state has to offer.
But then something astounding happened.
"It was astounding," Mora said.
Because it was in the midst of these whipping winds and unsettling heights that welders, riveters, steamfitters, bricklayers, marble setters, metal lathers, glaziers and roofers pieced this building together in unforgiving, empty space in an astounding 11 months.
