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Recent Examples of sierraFacial moles like cacti in the sierra, front-tooth gaps like keyhole nebulae.—Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 14 Nov. 2022 Web cams pointed at Yosemite Valley’s famous granite features, including Half Dome and El Capitan, showed the high sierra landscape completely smoked out, with terrible visibility, on Thursday afternoon.—Gregory Thomas, SFChronicle.com, 17 Sep. 2020 Then a couple of years later, in 1984, two American anthropologists—including Stephen Athens, a rising star in the archaeology of Ecuador’s northern sierra—showed up.—Naomi Renee Cohen, Slate Magazine, 15 May 2017
Among the displays are ceramic figures, scale models and paintings that narrate indigenous traditions in the Andes cordillera, from the first settlements dating back 15,000 years to the birth of the Tiwanaku state and the rise of the Incan empire.
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Washington Post,
Washington Post,
20 Sep. 2019
Away to the west, mountains rode the horizons, granite faced, severe, not the Andes yet, but the cordillera of the pre-Andes.
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Stanley Stewart,
Condé Nast Traveler,
22 Aug. 2019
During this time, what is now the Canadian Rockies was covered in water, and animals swam above the ground that would later become mountains.
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Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
15 May 2025
The most subdued of those was one of the most tempting: Hotel Wren in Twentynine Palms, which only opened in March, a 12-room, high-end retreat with muted colors, enormous rooms, custom furniture and poolside mountain views.
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Christopher Reynolds,
Los Angeles Times,
15 May 2025
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