Mount Ararat
About Mount Ararat
Mount Ararat, officially Mount Ağrı, or also known as Masis is a snow- capped and dormant compound volcano in easternmost Turkey. It consists of two major volcanic cones: Greater Ararat and Little Ararat. Greater Ararat is the highest peak in Turkey and the Armenian highlands with an elevation of 5,137 m (16,854 ft); Little Ararat's elevation is 3,896 m (12,782 ft). The Ararat massif is about 35 km (22 mi) wide at ground base. The first recorded efforts to reach Ararat's summit were made in the Middle Ages, and Friedrich Parrot, Khachatur Abovian, and four others made the first recorded ascent in 1829.
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Do you know about the Ararat anomaly? If people have taken photos of the snow near the summit of Mount Ararat, there's something that looks very much like Noah's Ark.
from 572: No Such Thing As A Simon Cowell Bell, 2025-02-27 at 00:30:59 · read transcript
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You've got to climb out with a sleeping bag, mate. How dumb is this guy? He eventually passed out and he woke up and he was connected to his pillow because there was so much blood that had solidified on it. He should have died on Mount Ararat. It's the most like Mr. Bean adventure amongst this search. He was a creationist on the moon. Any idiot can be an astronaut.
559: No Such Thing As Fishing In The Sea Of Tranquility, 2024-11-28 · listen
Didn't they think they got murdered at one point? Yeah. On the way there, he writes all about the cliffs around Mount Ararat and like going through these crazy like hairpin, bends in Iran they had to put wooden planks under the wheels because the bus was sinking into the sand. It had to be dug out of a bog in Persia. It was sandstorms and rains and incredible heat and collapsed bridges and like a crash.
No Such Thing As A Clenched Shin, 2024-04-04 · listen
Lots of my parents well not a lot a few of my parents friends have done it it was the gap year of its day wasn't it and they do talk about how different it was then that you could go through all of these countries and I know it's Cold War so it was you know not a bed of roses but now you would be told it was too dangerous to get a bus through any of those places and then you just went through and we met with friendly receptions in all those countries. Didn't they think they'd got murdered at one point? So on the way there, he writes all about the cliffs around Mount Ararat and going through these crazy hairpin bends. In Iran, they had to put wooden planks under the wheels because the bus was sinking into the sand.
525: No Such Thing As A Clenched Shin, 2024-04-04 · listen
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