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Exploring 7 of Earth’s Great Mountain Ranges
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Bear Hat Mountain Snow-capped, rugged Atlas Mountains encircle a green valley with scattered trees, terraced fields, and a few small buildings in Morocco. Australian gum tree (Eucalyptus). Goatherds with a flock of goats walk along a dirt path near the shore of Lake Tana, with scattered trees and distant water under a clear sky in Ethiopia. Close-up of a Monkey Puzzle Tree branch (Araucaria araucana) showing sharp, spirally arranged green leaves on a thick stem. Snow-covered peaks of Kangchenjunga rise sharply above forested lower slopes, with dramatic ridges and clouds partially obscuring the Himalayan mountain range. monkey Matterhorn St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park
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Bear Hat Mountain
Bear Hat Mountain above Hidden Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana, United States,...
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Morocco
The rugged Atlas Mountains surround a valley in Morocco.
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Australian gum tree (Eucalyptus).
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Ethiopia: Lake Tana
Lake Tana, near Gaigora, Ethiopia.
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monkey puzzle tree
Branch of the monkey puzzle tree (Araucaria araucana), an evergreen ornamental...
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Kanchenjunga
Kanchenjunga in the Himalayas, at the border of India (Sikkim state) and Nepal.
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monkey
Barbary macaque (Macaca sylvanus).
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Matterhorn
The summit of the Matterhorn, in the Alps, Switzerland-Italy.
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St. Mary Lake, Glacier National Park
St. Mary Lake near Going-to-the-Sun Road, Glacier National Park, Montana, U.S.
Donnie Sexton/Travel Montana