Mountain Ranges
Jul 06 2024
🏔️ Overview Caucasus Minor, more commonly called the Lesser Caucasus, is a complex mountain system stretching approximately 600 kilometers across the South Caucasus. Its interconnected ranges, volcanic plateaus, highland lakes, forested valleys, and rocky summits extend primarily through Armenia, southern Georgia, and western Azerbaijan. Although overshadowed by the higher and more heavily glaciated Greater Caucasus, …
Jul 04 2024
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Occidental, or Western Cordillera, is the westernmost major mountain division of the Peruvian Andes. Extending through much of Peru, it forms an extraordinary highland landscape of glacier-covered summits, volcanic peaks, deep canyons, windswept plateaus, alpine lakes, and traditional Andean communities. Rather than being a single, uniform mountain range, the Cordillera Occidental …
Jul 03 2024
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Occidental is the westernmost of Colombia’s three principal Andean mountain ranges. Rising between the Pacific coastal lowlands and the Cauca River Valley, it forms a rugged landscape of tropical rainforest, cloud forest, steep river canyons, remote mountain ridges, and high-altitude páramo. Although it does not contain the towering glacier-covered volcanoes associated …
Jul 02 2024
🏔️ Overview The Cordillera Central, also known as the Cordillera Volcánica Central or Central Volcanic Range, is a mountain range in central Costa Rica distinguished by active volcanoes, cloud forests, crater lakes, waterfalls, and protected wildlife habitat. Stretching for approximately 80 kilometers, or 50 miles, the range rises above Costa Rica’s densely populated Central Valley …
Jul 01 2024
🏔️ Overview The Wind River Range rises across western Wyoming in a dramatic sweep of granite peaks, glacial valleys, alpine lakes, and high-elevation wilderness. Commonly called the Winds, this spectacular section of the Rocky Mountains contains Wyoming’s highest mountain, some of the largest remaining glaciers in the American Rockies, and several of the West’s most …
Jun 30 2024
🏔️ Overview The Andes of Patagonia form one of the most dramatic mountain landscapes on Earth. Stretching across southern Chile and Argentina, this rugged section of the Andes Mountains is defined by immense ice fields, granite towers, temperate rainforests, turquoise lakes, windswept grasslands, and glaciers descending toward Pacific fjords. Unlike the exceptionally high mountains of …
Apr 22 2024
Kabru Kabru is a spectacular high-altitude mountain massif in the eastern Himalayas, rising along the border between Nepal and the Indian state of Sikkim. Immediately south of Kangchenjunga, the third-highest mountain in the world, Kabru forms part of one of the most impressive concentrations of giant peaks anywhere in the Himalayas. Kabru is more complicated …
Mar 23 2024
The Kunlun Mountains are one of Asia’s great high mountain systems, stretching across western China along the northern margin of the Tibetan Plateau. Vast, remote, and often starkly beautiful, the Kunlun rise between some of the highest landscapes on Earth and the great deserts and basins of Central Asia. Broad definitions of the range extend …
Mar 11 2024
Phoenix Mountains Rising abruptly from the floor of the Salt River Valley, the Phoenix Mountains form one of the most distinctive urban mountain landscapes in the American Southwest. The range runs through the heart of the Phoenix metropolitan area, placing rugged Sonoran Desert ridges, rocky summits, cactus-covered slopes, and miles of hiking trails within minutes …
Jan 12 2024
The Presidential Range is the highest and most famous mountain group in New Hampshire’s White Mountains, stretching across a rugged landscape of exposed ridges, glacial ravines, dense spruce-fir forests, fragile alpine tundra, and some of the most severe weather in the eastern United States. At its center rises Mount Washington, the 6,288-foot (1,917-meter) high point …
