sky island n.— «From a parched sea of desert in southeastern Arizona, Mt. Graham rises 2 miles to a crested summit above the clouds. Isolated in time and space for 11,000 years, the mountain is what biologists call a sky island, “a...
snack TV n.— «The content of YouTube (and Guba, Veoh and an army of imitators) includes home movies and viral (emailed) videos, amateur comedy and drama, short films, music videos and a mountain of copyright-breaching clips from well...
flashpacker n.— «Flashpacker is a fairly new term—not to be confused with a backpacker who strips naked or a photographer on the road—used to describe independent travellers who journey in style. It applies to adventurous men and women...
Joey n.— «A Joey is a person who dresses all wrong for snowboarding. He’s probably from New Jersey, these baggie-clothed mountain boys guess. One of a Joey’s worst sins is wearing his jacket open, so it flaps as he comes down the mountain...
down range adv.— «The Landstuhl facility, the largest American military hospital outside the United States, sits atop a small mountain overlooking the town of the same name.…A quarter of its multinational patients arrive with hard...
NAFOD n.— «The “cat dancers” of the title are people who are willing to scale down the sheer wall of a mountain gorge to a panther’s den so to snap a shot of the cat’s face and hope to live to tell the story. Such a person is...