Mount Emei

Admiral Pliny watched from his mammoth fleet of ships as Mt. Vesuvius started to rumble. As he watched the menacing volcano, a looming mass of ash and pumice shot into the darkening sky. He could hear the screams of the citizens on land and the cries of their children as they tried to run away from death's face. Pliny had a gut feeling that this would not end well. He knew that this eruption caused the fall of the beautiful and innocent city of Pompeii and of many of the citizens that occupied it

Multiple people died on Everest in the spring of 1996, but there were many causes to the deaths of those climbers. One of the main causes was the overconfidence by multiple people on the mountain. The book Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer states, “One of the first people I passed when I started moving again was Scott Fischer's sirdar, Lopsang Jangbu, kneeling in the snow over a pile of vomit . . . His feeble state, moreover, had been compounded by his insistence on "short-roping" the celebrity amateur

The human race is guided through their lives by the past experiences of others; the survival of a species is dependent of the tales passed down. The tales of climbing are also passed down and to the ones that don’t make it, the deepest condolences go out to their families in rough times. To the guides and Sherpas of the Everest disaster who periled, they made the climb possible for twenty five others who were on the slopes. The guides and sherpas of any expedition deserve a lot of respect for the

Axial Seamount is one of the hardest geological features to figure out the origins. Axial Seamount is one of the most elaborate landforms I’ve ever seen. It is said to be one of the most geologically complex landforms to be found yet. I have yet to tell you all of the most interesting things about Axial Seamount. In the Northeast Pacific ocean lies Axial Seamount. We only discovered Axial Seamount in the 1970s. Axial Seamount is an underwater volcano 1400, below sea level. It sits on two large

Japan is been always known for their unique artstyle, but none is more influential on both Japanese and western cultural than Katsushika Hokusai. Many consider his paintings the pinnacle of art in the Edo period. The old man of many names is a true part of both japanese and art culture. Hokusai was born around September 23, 1760 in Edo, Japan. Edo is located east of the bank of sumida river in Honjo, Japan’s Capital district, known as modern day Tokyo. Hokusai was born in the Zodiacal year of the

My report is over Mount Bromo. “Mt. Bromo volcano in East Java is the active cone inside the giant Tengger caldera, one of Indonesia's most scenic locations destination in East Java, famous for its magnificent sunrise views and the panorama over the caldera with Semeru volcano in the background” (Volcano Discovery). The first known and confirmed eruption of Mt. Bromo was within 50 years of 1590 AD. The second confirmed eruption was September 1804. The third known and confirmed eruption of my volcano

The first thing you felt was the softness of something beneath you, and the warmness of what you assumed was sunlight on your tan skin. Sitting up very slowly, you examined the space around you to find what was so soft below your outstretched legs. Golden flowers grew out of the cracked stone ground, shining a yellowish hue that seemed to make them even more beautiful than they already were. The sunlight that lit up part of the room you were currently residing in came from a distant hole in the rocky

We started preparing to leave for Everest on June, 2015, even though we were delayed for preparing and for the season. After several checks, however, we found a perfect weather window for summer, with few monsoons from India. So we scheduled the real ascent the first week of July, and two weeks after we sold most of what we had, and put in boxes all the gear we already had. Summiting Everest depends on a number of factors, and any experienced climber knows this. Because Everest is the tallest mountain

In “AD 79 – Pompeii, Oplontis Positano, In Search of Lost Landscapes,” Giovanni di Maio discusses the destruction of the cities surrounding Mt. Vesuvius. These cities faced various disasters from earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis and volcanic eruptions. A gravestone was actually discovered in 62 AD how a wife lost her family due to her house collapsing. Most of Pompeii, Oplontis and Herculaneum was destroyed by the earthquake. However, by 79AD Mt. Vesuvius erupted and buried all three towns. Herculaneum

Some may have an effect on both people and cities and the people's mindsets may change on their beloved homes. There are two very well known and pretty much legendary volcanoes, Mount Vesuvius and Mount St Helens. They may seem different and they are, but they are the same too, for instance both Mount vesuvius and Mount St Helens are both stratovolcanoes,they’re also both “claimed to be complex volcanoes”. Both volcanoes had their major eruption after lying dormant for more than 10 years, and their