Born in the mountains, raised among goats, caught in the rain: Giotto was not, after all, famous for being famous, but for being humble.
Hard sandstones and conglomerates in the Poconos have resisted erosion and thus kept the mountains raised above the surrounding lowlands, forming a heavily forested plateau that is flat to hilly in character.
The changes are already being noticed by the people who live in the mountains, raising anxieties.
Storm Doris brought heavy snowfalls to Scotland's highest mountains, raising the potential risk of avalanches.
Todays record-approaching high temperatures of 90 degrees in Denver and may further accelerate the burning in the southeast, and even the snowmelt in the mountains, raising flood worries.
"It's a small town," says Karen, "so you have to diversify or you'll never make it". She is 42, a Marilu Henner type, and she grew up in Battle Mountain and raised her children here.
A minister's son and self-described mountain man raised in the Denver suburbs, Mr. Ebert's easygoing affect will be back onstage in the return engagement of "4000 Miles," which begins performances on March 15 at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater.
"I was born on a mountain and raised in a cave.
Though details remain sparse on where and when the Sudanese forces will fight, reports saying they would be deployed in Yemen's mountain areas raised additional concern among human rights officials.
As much as anything, it was the combination of that one great victory against the French and then the odyssey back and forth across the mountains that raised Garibaldi's reputation in many Italian minds to the status of myth.
There, it is proposed to blast a place for a shrine in the heart of the star-crowned summit of Mt. Rubidoux, and in that shrine to place a figure of Christ, a war-shattered cross from a field in Flanders, and a group of sculptured figures to represent Riverside's heroic dead, with the legend of their sacrifices and their names cut into the granite of the mountains and raised on tablets of bronze.
