Land where my fathers died, land of the Pilgrim's pride, From every mountainside, let freedom ring! And if America is to be a great nation, this must become true.
Most visitors come here for the cross-country skiing, where you're on fairly flat ground for most of the time, rather than going down steep mountainsides.
However, after the axes had been chipped into shape, they needed water and sand for grinding and polishing, so a high mountainside wouldn't have been an appropriate place for this.
Over millions of years, freeze-thaw cycles pry at these cracks, while winds claw at the slopes and streams and glaciers carve deep valleys into the mountainside, all weakening the mountain's support, this can end badly.
On May 13th, 1945, a US Army Air Force C-47, nicknamed the Gremlin Special, crashed into a mountainside, in what is now known as the Shangri-La Valley in New Guinea.
在1945年5月13日 一架名为 Gremlin Special 的美国空军 C-47 飞机撞上腰,也就是现在的新几内亚 Shangri-La 谷。
A landslide occurs when a massive amount of earth, rock and other types of debris suddenly barrel down steep areas like mountainsides, burying anything in its path.