"There's just this tremendous mountain it seems like you have to climb to get anybody to listen to you or have faith in you," Mr. Anfanger said.
And the scale was tremendous: towering mountains, limitless vistas, sourceless rivers, as befitted an image of nature that was an emblem of creation itself, a vision of matter forever consolidating and evaporating.
"Great views, a host of high summits and the unmistakable Mourne Wall make these mountains a tremendous walking region," says Sarah.
Yoshitaka Murata, Japan's disaster management minister, flew over the mountainous section of Niigata Prefecture, about 125 miles north of Tokyo, and told reporters, "I saw tremendous landslides in the mountains from a helicopter".
I had suggested that we stay a couple of extra days in Kalpa, where our Swiss-chalet-style hotel room had floor-to-ceiling windows and tremendous views of the mountains.
The material collapses upon itself, forming a fast-moving pyroclastic flow (known as a block-and-ash flow) that moves down the side of the mountain at tremendous speeds, often over 150 km per hour.
To support the tremendous topography observed at these mountains requires compositions consisting mostly of silicate rock, as opposed to sulfur.
It's a shame it took mountains of sleaze, tremendous shareholder losses, a financial crisis and taxpayer bailouts for Weill to see the light because there are many valid reasons to break up the banks.
She described her "tremendous loss" while driving through the mountains with me: "I had to love my children, and it was my mother, the way she loved, and my love for Walter, I gave it to others".
