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Daniel Martin April 3, 2012
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Daniel Martin Professor Razban World Regional Geography April 3, 2012
Prisoner of the Mountains The inner portions of the former U.S.S.R are a curious, rarely visited in real life or film, places that the average American is unfamiliar with the terrain and inhabitants. Prisoner of the Mountains is an award winning film shot on site less than 50 miles from real Islamic seperatist rebel territory deep in the mountains south of european Russia. The Caucasus mountains are located along the southwest border of former soviet territory extending from between the Black and Caspian seas north to European Russia between Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The terrain is vast, harsh, and dwarfs the inhabitants with huge glacial mountains and valleys striped in forest according to altitude and scattered with villages of natives living nearly the same way they have for hundreds of years altered only moderately by modern convenience. Though it is foreign territory thousands of miles from anywhere I have ventured, some of the terrain seems familiar to me; having lived in mountainous Idaho and barren Texas. The terrain was most analogous to what I have seen in the wide grassland range
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and jagged peaked river valleys of the area north of Boise, Idaho. The landscape in Prisoner of the Mountains, which also has been titled Prisoner of the Caucasus in other countries, is characterized by vast rolling grass covered foothills fragmented by sudden harsh altitude change due to more recent tectonic activity. Rivers have etched their way into the landscape and have crafted beautiful snaking valleys rushing with clear cool melted mountain runoff. Long grass seems to be sprouting miraculously from jagged rock as far as the eye can see. Extremely high quality unaltered air makes visibility seem to have higher definition,
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Daniel Martin April 3, 2012
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Daniel Martin Professor Razban World Regional Geography April 3, 2012
Prisoner of the Mountains The inner portions of the former U.S.S.R are a curious, rarely visited in real life or film, places that the average American is unfamiliar with the terrain and inhabitants. Prisoner of the Mountains is an award winning film shot on site less than 50 miles from real Islamic seperatist rebel territory deep in the mountains south of european Russia. The Caucasus mountains are located along the southwest border of former soviet territory extending from between the Black and Caspian seas north to European Russia between Ukraine and Kazakhstan. The terrain is vast, harsh, and dwarfs the inhabitants with huge glacial mountains and valleys striped in forest according to altitude and scattered with villages of natives living nearly the same way they have for hundreds of years altered only moderately by modern convenience. Though it is foreign territory thousands of miles from anywhere I have ventured, some of the terrain seems familiar to me; having lived in mountainous Idaho and barren Texas. The terrain was most analogous to what I have seen in the wide grassland range
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and jagged peaked river valleys of the area north of Boise, Idaho. The landscape in Prisoner of the Mountains, which also has been titled Prisoner of the Caucasus in other countries, is characterized by vast rolling grass covered foothills fragmented by sudden harsh altitude change due to more recent tectonic activity. Rivers have etched their way into the landscape and have crafted beautiful snaking valleys rushing with clear cool melted mountain runoff. Long grass seems to be sprouting miraculously from jagged rock as far as the eye can see. Extremely high quality unaltered air makes visibility seem to have higher definition,