What mountain is, for Hindus, the home of Lord Shiva, one of the three major deities? (Hint: To
climb this mountain would be sacrilegious. Instead, it's a favourite for circumambulation, the act
of walking around a sacred object or idol) - answer✔Mt. Kailish
n the European Alps and the mountains of the Middle East, archaeological sites indicate the
presence of humans as far back as ___________. - answer✔100,000 years ago
Today's widespread romantic enthusiasm for mountains is relatively new. What two ideas would
transform mountains in popular Western thinking in the late-18th and 19th centuries from sites of
wild desolation to sites of wild splendor? - answer✔The Myth of the Frontier, Sublime
Around the globe, many of the earliest national parks were established in mountains. What was
the world's first national park? - answer✔Yellowstone
Identify the individual(s) whose writings contributed to the trans-Atlantic Romantic Movement,
and specifically the doctrine of the Sublime. - answer✔Muir, Wordsworth, Mary Shelley
Wild country and mountains, in the 19th-century American instance, became not just a place of
religious redemption, but a place of ________________. - answer✔National renewal
The rejuvenating power attributed to mountains can be witnessed in late 19th-century with the
proliferation of ____________. - answer✔Health sanitariums, bathing, leisure
What mountain sport is perhaps the most literary of all sports? - answer✔Climbing
Avalanches in the European Alps became an increased problem between the 16th and 18th
centuries primarily due to what factor(s)? - answer✔Increasing population and the widespread
cutting of mountain forests, little ice age
Where did Canada's earliest recorded avalanche fatality occur? - answer✔Nain
What is/are the difference(s) between a "slab avalanche" and a "loose-snow avalanche"? -
answer✔Loose-snow avalanches have little internal cohesion, while slab avalanches have
enough internal cohesion to slide as a unit before breaking up, Slab avalanches occur much less
frequently, but are considerably more dangerous
The majority of avalanches occur on slopes of what steepness? - answer✔35-40degrees
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