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    Do people have the right to put themselves at risk and others to? If a climber goes hiking up Mount Everest‚ they have to be experienced. Some of the climbers do not care about the oxygen‚ ¨the death zone‚¨ and the heavy winds. When a climber is going to go to Mount Everest‚ they have to prepared for whatever may happen. Some people have died trying to save others. It is always dangerous up on Mount Everest. The first reason people do not have the right to rescue services when they put themselves

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    Mount Vesuvius is one of the most notoriously recognized volcanic eruptions known to man to date. As our text states‚ “this famous volcano erupted in the year 79 AD‚ ejecting a huge cauliflower-shaped cloud of ash and debris that rapidly settled to the Earth (Strahler 436).” After doing some outside research on this magnificent volcanic landform‚ I found quite a few things: “Mount Vesuvius is located in Italy‚ near the areas of the Tyrrhenian Sea and the capital of Italy. The volcano also buried

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    Protecting our Special Places Mt Everest Mount Everest‚ also known in Nepal as Sagarmāthā and in Tibet as Chomolungma‚ is Earth’s highest mountain. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. Its peak is 8848m (29‚029 ft.) above sea level. The boarder between China and Nepal runs directly across the summit of Mount Everest. The current height was established by India and then confirmed in a subsequent survey by China in 1975. Due to Mount Everest being an amazing environmental feature

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    MOUNT VESUVIUS FACTS Mount Vesuvius is probably the most famous volcano EVER! I wrote a couple of interesting facts that you can copy and paste freely for your term paper or geography project. * Situated in Naples‚ Italy‚ Mount Vesuvius which is 19‚ 000 years old is a stratovolcano. This volcano can be recognized even from a distance‚ due to its characteristic feature of a ’humpback’ mountain. Volcanoes are classified according to their shapes and Mount Vesuvius is a stratovolcano.

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    achieves what‚ leading to unqualified people making life and death decisions. It is the consequences from these purchases which emphasizes why skill-sensitive roles should not be for auction. Although it is not typically the first example to be recalled‚ Mount Everest is being essentially prostituted for profit. High altitude climbing is not made possible without much experience but the commercializing of mountain climbing has changed that. Now‚ for just about $35‚000 one can have a team of porters to pre-set

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    Mount Kailas is almost 22‚000 feet high in elevation and 4‚300 feet counter line to summit. It is the source of some of the largest and most important rivers in Asia: The Indus River‚ the Sutlej River‚ the Brahmaputra River‚ and the Karnali River. This great is located in Tibet‚ which has been taken over control by the Chinese since 1949‚ after the Chinese civil war. They control the borders and prohibit westerners from coming in to the country because they don’t want people there taking pictures

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    over everything was destroyed nothing was left standing. Population decreased by a lot most people didn’t make it threw the ash at the time there was no technology to prevent that much loss of life so most people didn’t make it threw the explosion of Mount Tambora. This destruction was deadly and terrifying most feared explosion in

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    skilled professionals regularly visit to scale the Mountains in Nepal‚ which has increased the number of tourist in Nepal. In the last decade‚ people’s attraction toward the mountaineering has increased a lot‚ by which number of climbers visiting Mount Everest has also been increased. Due to the increasing number of climbers in the Everest‚ pollution in and around the Everest has increased and it needs a special attention to prevent from the pollution. Everest attracts people of all around the world

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    Mount Rushmore is a mountain located in the Black Hills of South Dakota. South Dakota is placed in the Midwestern region of the United States. This incredible sculpture portrays the faces of four esteemed presidents‚ Thomas Jefferson‚ George Washington‚ Theodore Roosevelt‚ and Abraham Lincoln. They symbolize this nation’s rich history. Sculptor Gutzon Borglum began to drill into the six-thousand foot mountain in 1927. After months of diligent work on the mountain‚ the sculptor passed

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    Mount. Vesuvius Vesuvius is the only active volcano in mainland Europe‚ and has produced some of the continent ’s largest volcanic eruptions. Vesuvius and other Italian volcanoes‚ are part of the Campanian volcanic arc. The Campanian arc sits on a tectonic boundary where the African plate is being subducted beneath the Eurasian plate. Apparently‚ no one was aware that Vesuvius was an active volcano‚ even after an earthquake in February of the year 63. The towns’ people thought the soil

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