Mountains & Mountain Ranges Posters & Art Prints, pg 2/2

Pikes Peak is a 14,000'+ mountain in the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains, in Colorado. Named for Zebulon Pike, it is visible from upto 130 miles away on a clear day, making it a landmark for explorers, “mountain men” and early white pioneers.

The poem that eventually evolved into the lyrics of “America, the Beautiful” were written by Katharine Lee Bates after she visited the summit of Pikes Peak in 1893.

Popocatépetl, “Smoking Mountain”, is the 2nd highest peak in Mexico (after Pico de Orizaba).

The stratovolcano Mount Rainier, at 14,411 ft, is both is the highest peak in the Cascade Range and listed on the Decade Volcano list as one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world.

The Rocky Mountains are usually defined as stretching from the Liard River in British Columbia south to the Rio Grande in New Mexico.

Mount Rushmore- Leadership-
“Those who follow the crowd will never be followed by it.” Warren G. Bennis
(Black Hills, South Dakota)

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• presidents posters

Did you know that Jean-François de Galaup, comte de La Pérouse, a French Navy officer, observed the only historical eruption of Mount Shasta on September 7, 1786? (Cascade Range, No. California)

• National Parks posters
• Lenticual Cloud at Mt. Shasta

Montagne Sainte-Victoire, located in the south of France, is a limestone mountain ridge.

Many artists have been inspired to paint Montagne Sainte-Victoire, most notably Paul Cezanne who could see the mountain from his home in nearby Aix-en-Provence.

Table Mountain is a flat-topped mountain overlooking the city of Cape Town in South Africa. Table Mountain is a prominent landmark and tourist attraction.

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The Tetons, the youngest range of the Rocky Mountains, are on the Wyoming side of the border with Idaho, and just south of Yellowstone National Park.

The name used by the French Voyageurs was “les Trois Téton” meaning “the three breasts”.

Mount Whitney, part of the Sierra Nevada range in California, is the highest peak in the contiguous US; the nearby Death Valley is the lowest point.

For those so inclined (pun intended) try out the Badwater Ultramarathon which was originally conceived as a race from the lowest to the highest points in the US and now just ;-) goes to the Mount Whitney trailhead.

Mont Ventoux is the largest mountain in the region of Provance in France and has been nicknamed the “Giant of Provence”, or “The Bald Mountain”.

In 1336 Petrarch had a “peak experience” in his climb of Mont Ventoux in southern France; he said “[W]e look about us for what is to be found only within. .... How many times, think you, did I turn back that day, to glance at the summit of the mountain which seemed scarcely a cubit high compared with the range of human contemplation ... ”. Jungian analyst James Hillman called Petrarch's rediscovery of the inner world the beginning of the Renaissance.

Mount Vesuvius, a stratovolcano east of Naples, Italy, is the only volcano on the European mainland to have erupted within the last hundred years.

In AD 79 Vesuvius erupted, destroying the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum, including Roman naval officer and writer Pliny the Elder, who was attempting a rescue; today more that 3,000,000 people live near this explosive volcano. Also, Impressionist painter Giuseppe de Nittis painted several views of Vesuvius' eruption of 1872.

Mountainous Landscape, Giclee Print

Artist John Ruskin is best known as an art and social critic.

• Great Thinker Quote- John Ruskin