21-25 Mountain Facts
21. There’s a mountain where each face flows to a different ocean (Arctic, Pacific, Atlantic). – Source
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. – Source
23. Whale Fossils have been found on top of the Andes mountains. – Source
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. – Source
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. – Source
26-30 Mountain Facts
26. More species of plants exist on a mountain in South Africa than in the whole UK. – Source
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. – Source
28. There was a clan of blue-skinned people in the Kentucky mountains. – Source
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. – Source
30. There is a mountain (Mount Tenpō) in Japan that is only 4.53 Meters tall. – Source
31-33 Mountain Facts
31. Annapurma I is the mountain with the highest mortality rate in the world, 32% of those that attempt the climb have died. – Source
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. – Source
33. There’s a mountain in Germany that has been burning since 1688. The cause is still not totally known today. – Source
