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Mungo Park - Scottish physician and explorer; Hakim Syed Zillur Rahman - Indian author and translator of classical manuscripts; José Rizal (1861–1896) - Filipino novelist, scientist, linguist, and national hero; João Guimarães Rosa - Brazilian writer; Sir Ronald Ross (1857–1932) - British writer and poet, discovered the malarial parasite
She would spend two years working with the National Park Service as a climbing ranger. The next year, Metcalfe began working with Russell Brice's Himalayan Experience as an expedition medic. [9] [10] She has continued to spend each climbing season working as a high-altitude expedition doctor, and established best practices in the field for ...
Zabriskie Point is a part of the Amargosa Range located east of Death Valley in Death Valley National Park in California, United States, noted for its erosional landscape. It is composed of sediments from Furnace Creek Lake, which dried up 5 million years ago—long before Death Valley came into existence.
Death Valley is known as America’s hottest, driest and lowest national park. It holds the Guiness World Record for the highest temperature ever recorded anywhere: 134 degrees on July 10, 1913.
There's a place in Death Valley National Park where a mystery that has puzzled scientists and park visitors for decades finally has been solved. Across a dry lake in the park known as the ...
Manly rescued several families of pioneers from Death Valley during the 1849 California Gold Rush. For this reason, three geographic features in Death Valley bear his name: the Manly Beacon near Zabriskie Point , Manly Peak, situated to the south between Panamint Valley and the Death Valley, and Lake Manly , the ancient dried lake in the Valley.
Extreme heat is both one of Death Valley's greatest intrigues and its most serious safety concern. It's not uncommon for a few people to die in the park from heatstroke in any given summer.
Mat Roy Thompson (February 8, 1874 – June 8, 1962), known also as Matt Roy Thompson, Matthew R. Thompson, Mathew R. Thompson, M. Roy Thompson, Roy Thompson, and Leroy Thompson, was a civil engineer and architect who worked on a great variety of construction and development projects across the United States, most notably on Scotty's Castle, the Death Valley mansion of eccentric millionaire ...