Aconcagua DetailAt nearly 23,000 feet or 7,000 meters, Aconcagua is the highest mountain in the Americas and the highest peak in the Southern Hemisphere. This image is a detail of the eastern flank of the great peak and was captured in the Argentine Andes.

Known as the Grand Canyon State and as the Copper State

Three members of the dashing herd pass before the lens

offered at a value as rare as its quality

Culinary artists Catherine Cotay and Gerardo Moceri as well as and literary artists

a tiger of any color

but it would be a dangerous fall for the chick if it lost its balance before it learns to fly

From its origins high in the Rocky Mountains

These four and the final step amount to 365 stairs and represent the annual cycle of days

from the Ancestral Puebloans to the Navajo who still inhabit and cultivate the valley floor

It has been a source of inspiration for many less creative architects than Eduard Riedel who designed it on a commission from Ludwig II of Bavaria

They are also known to spit at those that make them feel threatened

painter Allison Rae Nichols