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Mountaineering
Mountaineering, or alpinism, is climbing high points in mountainous regions over mixed rock, snow, ice, and glacier terrain. Born with Mont Blanc's 1786 first ascent, organized from the Alpine Club (1857) and UIAA (1932), with falling Everest death rates and growing commercialization.
Mountaineering and climbing
Mountaineering and climbing, mountain sports of ascending steep terrain; UIAA founded 1932, Olympic alpinism medals 1924-1936, rope climbing gymnastics event to 1932, and sport climbing Olympic from Tokyo 2020 to LA28.
Mountainhead
Mountainhead is a 2025 American satirical comedy-drama film directed by Jesse Armstrong. It centers on four tech executives meeting at a snowy Utah retreat amidst an AI disinformation crisis.
Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus
The Mountainous Republic of the Northern Caucasus, also called the Mountain Republic, was a short-lived state in the North Caucasus and Dagestan declared in May 1918.
Mountainous Urals Biosphere Reserve
Mountainous Urals Biosphere Reserve (Горный Урал), a UNESCO MAB site in the Southern Urals of Russia designated in 2018, covering 173,578 ha with 12,000 residents, Taganay National Park, and a mining-to-tourism transition objective.
Mountains and Rivers Without End
Mountains and Rivers Without End is a book-length poem by Gary Snyder, published in 1996 after forty years of work, modeled on a Chinese landscape handscroll.
Mountains and Sea
Mountains and Sea is a 1952 abstract painting by Helen Frankenthaler, made by pouring thinned oil paint onto raw canvas in a soak-stain technique that inspired Morris Louis, Kenneth Noland, and Color Field painting.
Mountains classification in the Tour de France
Mountains classification (classement du meilleur grimpeur), Tour de France standings since 1933 awarding the red polka dot jersey since 1975; points on categorised climbs from cat 4 to hors catégorie, with doubled summit-finish points.
Mountains May Depart (山河故人)
Mountains May Depart (山河故人) is Jia Zhangke's 2015 three-part drama spanning 1999, 2014, and 2025, following Shen Tao's love triangle in Fenyang, Shanxi, and her son's emigration to Australia; Cannes competitor, Golden Horse screenplay winner, re-released December 2025.
Mountains of Kong
Mountains of Kong: fictitious east-west mountain range across West Africa, first drawn by James Rennell in 1798 from Mungo Park's reports, copied onto maps until 1892, debunked by Louis Gustave Binger.
Mountainway
Mountainway is a Navajo healing ceremony, one of the Mountain Chant group of chantways, directed by a singer to restore harmony between patient and Holy People.
MountainWest Pipelines
MountainWest Pipelines is a group of FERC-regulated interstate natural gas transmission and storage systems in the Rocky Mountains, serving Wyoming, Utah, and Colorado and owned by The Williams Companies since 2023.
Mountbatten family
Mountbatten family, British dynasty from the German Battenberg house; name anglicized 1917. Key figures: Marquess of Milford Haven, Earl Mountbatten of Burma, Prince Philip; surname Mountbatten-Windsor since 1960.
Mountbatten pink
Mountbatten pink is a greyish-mauve naval camouflage color, hex #997A8D, devised by Lord Louis Mountbatten for his 5th Destroyer Flotilla in 1940 to hide ships at dawn and dusk; used by the Royal Navy and briefly the US Navy until 1943.
Mountbatten Plan
The Mountbatten Plan, also called the June 3rd Plan, was the 1947 British plan for the partition of British India and transfer of power on a Dominion status basis.
Mountbatten-Windsor
Mountbatten-Windsor is the personal surname of the British royal family, created by Elizabeth II's Privy Council declaration of 8 February 1960, combining Windsor with Philip's Mountbatten; used by descendants without HRH style when a surname is needed.
Mounted archery
Mounted archery (horseback archery, horse archery): shooting a bow from a moving horse, from Neo-Assyrian and Scythian warfare to Mongol conquests, and its modern sport revival via IHAA, yabusame, and Mongolian competition.
Mounted games
Mounted games (Pony-Games) is a team equestrian sport of fast relay races on ponies over a 54 m course, devised by Prince Philip in 1957; governed internationally by the IMGA (formed 2003) with 30-plus races, no spurs or whips, and riders of all ages.
Mountmellick embroidery
Mountmellick embroidery, or Mountmellick work, is an Irish white-on-white surface embroidery from Mountmellick, County Laois, developed by Johanna Carter around 1825; worked in thick cotton thread on satin jean with raised floral motifs, no openwork, and a knitted fringe.
Mountstuart Elphinstone
Mountstuart Elphinstone (1779–1859) was a British East India Company administrator and historian, Resident at Poona and head of the Bombay government from 1819 to 1827.
Moura (battery company)
Moura (Acumuladores Moura S.A.) is a Brazilian battery manufacturer founded in 1957 in Belo Jardim, Pernambuco, and the largest in Brazil's battery industry, producing over 11 million batteries a year.
Mourad Bourboune
Mourad Bourboune, born in Jijel, Algeria in 1938, is an Algerian writer in French whose second novel, Le Muezzin (1968), is a noted denunciation of the post-independence Algerian regime.
Mouratoglou Tennis Academy
Mouratoglou Tennis Academy: residential tennis and boarding-school academy in Biot, French Riviera, founded by Patrick Mouratoglou in 1996, moved to Biot 2016; 33 courts, Serena Williams's coach 2012-2022, Champ'seed Foundation, international sites.
Moureaux Islands
Moureaux Islands (Îles Moureaux): two islands and off-lying rocks 2.5 miles WNW of Pelletan Point in Flandres Bay, west Graham Land, Antarctica, at 65°05'S 63°08'W; charted and named by the Belgian Antarctic Expedition, landing February 1898.
Mourid Barghouti
Mourid Barghouti (مريد البرغوثي; born Nawwaf Abdul Raziq Mohammed Barghouti, 1944–2021) was a Palestinian poet and memoirist whose return from exile inspired I Saw Ramallah.
Mouride devotional poetry
Mouride devotional poetry, called xasida in Wolof, is the religious verse of Senegal's Muridiyya Sufi order, composed chiefly in Arabic and Arabic-script Wolof, founded by Shaykh Amadu Bamba (1853–1927).
Mourne Gullion Strangford UNESCO Global Geopark
Mourne Gullion Strangford UNESCO Global Geopark, in south-east Northern Ireland (Counties Armagh and Down), designated May 2023; 1,932 km² including marine area; records 400 million years of geology, the Iapetus and North Atlantic oceans.
Mourners of Dijon
The Mourners of Dijon (French: pleurants) are 82 alabaster statuettes in funeral procession around the tombs of the Dukes of Burgundy, now in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon.
Mourning
Mourning: culture-specific practices, especially dress and color, marking a death. Western black (Victorian codification, stages, WWI decline) versus East Asian white hemp attire; also Tahitian, Jewish, and South Asian variants.
Mourning Becomes Electra
Mourning Becomes Electra is a trilogy of plays by Eugene O'Neill, first performed on Broadway in 1931, retelling Aeschylus's Oresteia in post-Civil War New England.