Mountain - 33 Interesting facts
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1. Olympus Mons on Mars, the tallest known mountain in the solar system, is so large at its base that an observer on its peak wouldn’t know he was standing on a mountain because its slope would be obscured by the curvature of the planet itself.
2. There’s a mountain in Australia called Mt. Disappointment. It was named such because the explorers who first reached its summit found the view to be sub par and wanted to reflect their feelings in the name they chose for the mountain.
3. Colorado’s two tallest mountains are so close to each other in height that fans of each mountain would repeatedly pile up rocks to try and make their preferred mountain taller.
4. The Amazon River once flowed into the Pacific Ocean but was dammed up by the newly formed Andes Mountains. The Amazon’s basin then became a giant lake until it eroded away sandstone to the west, letting the lake drained into the Atlantic and forming the modern river.
5. The Scottish Highlands and Appalachian Mountains in the Eastern US are a part of the same mountain chain.
6. The K2, the world’s second tallest mountain, has no local name. It is so remote and inaccessible that very few local people knew of its existence, and thus why it retains its original surveying moniker given to it by British surveyors.
7. A family has been carving a 64 story Crazy Horse memorial out of a South Dakota mountain for around 70 years.
8. There is an inscription at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository meant to last 10,000 years, warning future civilizations of the danger lurking below the mountain.
9. There is a mountain called Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateapokaiwhenuakitanatahu in New Zealand, its name translates to “The summit where Tamatea, the man with the big knees, the slider, climber of mountains, the land-swallower who traveled about, played his nose flute to his loved one”.
10. Monarch butterflies seem to remember an ancient mountain that used to stand where Lake Superior is now, and they still veer around that long-gone obstacle during their migration flight across the lake.
11. Mount Everest may be the tallest mountain in the world, but Mount Chimborazo in Ecuador is the furthest away from the center of the earth.
12. Mount Kosciuszko was thought to be the highest mountain in Australia until Mount Townsend was found to be slightly taller. Rather than re-educating the public that Townsend was the new highest mountain, the New South Wales Lands Department simply switched their names.
13. The Teton mountains were named by French trappers who thought they resembled breasts (teton is French slang for breast) so Grand Teton National Park translates to Big t**s National Park.
14. The rainforest-blanketed mountain of Mabu in Mozambique was first discovered by scientists looking at Google Earth.
15. Mountains on the moon Titan are named after mountains from JRR Tolkien’s Middle Earth.
16. There are thought to be 100,000 uncharted mountains under the sea.
17. There’s a house in the Adirondack Mountains that’s perfectly designed to survive the end of the world.
18. Venus has Snow-Capped Mountains, but the “Snow” is made of Metal.
19. In the 1960s an Indo-American expedition tried to place a nuclear-powered monitoring device on a peak in the Himalayas, but it was lost in an avalanche. 5 kilograms of plutonium remain unaccounted for, somewhere near the of the Ganges River.
20. The largest mountain in The Netherlands is located in the Caribbean.
21. There’s a mountain where each face flows to a different ocean (Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic).
22. In 1859 the aurora was so bright that gold miners in the Rocky Mountains woke up and ate breakfast at 1 a.m., thinking the sun had risen on a cloudy day.
23. Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains.
24. After Yucca Mountain is closed, it will be marked by warning markers intended to last 10,000 years and to transcend culture and language. A contest to design the markers was held in 2002 and entries included mutated blue yucca plants and disguising the mountain to make it look like a volcano.
25. The CIA shut down access to the 23rd highest mountain in the world for nearly a decade in the ’60s because they lost a nuclear-powered missile detector in an avalanche.
26. More species of plants exist on a mountain in South Africa than in the whole UK.
27. Puerto Rico is the tip of an enormous ancient mountain that descends more than 30,000 feet to the floor of the Caribbean Sea, taller even than Mount Everest.
28. There was a clan of blue-skinned people in the Kentucky mountains.
29. A mountain named “Chinaman’s Peak” was renamed to “Ha Ling Peak” because it was seen as derogatory. Ha Ling was the first to climb it and had named it himself.
30. There is a mountain (Mount Tenpō) in Japan that is only 4.53 Meters tall.
31. Annapurma I is the mountain with the highest mortality rate in the world, 32% of those that attempt the climb have died.
32. Scottish mountains over 3000 feet are called “Munros”. Other mountains in the UK and Ireland over 150 meters are called “Marilyns”. The pun is intentional.
33. There’s a mountain in Germany that has been burning since 1688. The cause is still not totally known today.
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