Street artist Jetsonorama (real name Chip Thomas) is on a ladder in Telluride just in time for the famed and prestigious Mountain Film Festival and he says he only has a two-week permit for this mural during the Memorial Day-centered event that kicked off last Wednesday downtown at Sheridan Bar.
Naked ambition Jerry Moffatt, the man who made his name from intrepid rounds of mountain-climbing (and earned his notoriety after he appeared naked and tangled up in climbing rope in 'On the Edge' magazine) has won the Grand Prize at the 2009 Banff Mountain Book Festival arguably the most prestigious prize in mountain literature.
I put on an episode of The Move last week and it opened, inauspiciously, with Armstrong grumbling along about the use of helmets on Alpe d'Huez, one of the most prestigious, difficult and celebrated mountain ascents used in the Tour de France.
It presents a case study that combines corpus analysis, automated geoparsing and geographic information systems (GIS) to investigate the geographies associated with some of the key aesthetic terms historically used in writing about the English Lake District: a culturally prestigious region of lakes and mountains in northwest England.
Next month in Essex, east of London, Péraud will defend his silver medal in the Olympic cross-country race, mountain biking's most prestigious event.
Fox-Pitt, 43, won the prestigious Rolex Kentucky title with Cool Mountain in 2010.
Cypress Mountain is the largest and most prestigious of the three ski areas.
A prestigious lineup of musicians visit Wyoming's majestic mountains, where the music director, Donald Runnicles, conducts Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, works by John Adams and Aaron Jay Kernis and the premiere of a new piece by Stephen Paulus, featuring the cellist Lynn Harrell as soloist.
Surrounded by prestigious ski-resorts, Courchevel and Val-d'Isère the park offers a grand spectacle of glaciers and mountain lakes, perfect for mountain biking and trekking in the summer and cross-country skiing in the winter.
Pendants of whale teeth persisted, but only with minimal carving of a human face at the tip; and jade, from the mountains and streambeds of the South Island, became the most prestigious material for blades, weapons, and a wide range of ornaments.
Justin R. Meyer, a founder and for almost three decades president and winemaker at Silver Oak Cellars, one of California's most prestigious wineries, died on Tuesday while vacationing with his wife in the Sierra Nevada mountains, near Lake Tahoe.
