Sudden mountain vistas reward the ascent above a forested ravine

Evidence

After I had ridden about ten miles the road went up a steep hill in the forest, turned abruptly, and through the blue gloom of the great pines which rose from the ravine in which the river was then hid, came glimpses of two mountains, about 11,000 feet in height, whose bald grey summits were crowned with pure snow. It was one of those glorious sur- 4Pinus Lambertina. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 30

Categorization

• XREF: The dramatic reveal—forest gloom parting onto snow-crowned peaks—matches the narrative treatment of landscape in the reader’s other sources; a reusable structure for describing the sublime West.

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