Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work, turned ...

Plans to build Buncombe County’s largest public park are one step closer to fruition.

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In Byzantine art, landscape is almost wholly reduced to bare and craggy mountains, like those we still see in the background of Giotto’s Flight into Egypt. In some later Renaissance frescoes such as ...