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Japanese Alps
Japan has active glaciers — and the 'Japanese Alps' is a borrowed name that misleads as much as it reveals.
Mountains
Places with no reason to be climbed, climbed anyway.
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- in nature
- 8:57
- average
- 36 min
- in total
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- across the network
All briefs
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Matterhorn
A mountain that is all structure and no system—geology made visible, biology erased.
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Andean condor
A bald, red-faced sky-dominant scavenger that nests at 5,000 m—and refuses to do anything small.
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Africa’s highest point isn’t alive—but it’s still watching you sweat.