His son oversaw the final work. Britain's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, is to be sold to one of Scotland's leading conservation charities. The John Muir Trust is taking over the 4,400 foot peak for less than 500,000 after the current owner decided he did not want it being sold on the open market. The difference is about fifteen feet, and is due to differences in sea levels. The Pacific ocean is higher than others.
Nobody seems to know what holds the seas at different levels.
One of the favorite foods of moose in winter is the tender branches of the mountain ash tree. Using satellite-surveying techniques, scientists have determined that Los Angeles, California is moving east. At a rate estimated to be about one-fifth on an inch per year, the city is moving closer to the San Gabriel Mountains. That's an exceedingly odd number. Because that's the way they built them in England, and the US railroads were built by English expatriates.