Beloved monument was frequently vandalized by clever artists/activists until a fence went up. |
Los Angeles Hamalayas hamming it up for the Hollywood cameras with LA as Katmandu |
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Mt. Lee with antenna peak, sign on upper left |
Behind Los Angeles to the north is Angeles National Forest, and LA County seems to continue behind this great forest, headwaters, and occasionally snowy peaks. Just like the view of the Himalayan range north of Kathmandu, it's not possible to tell which one is Mt. Everest.
Wow, that's Everest from below? No, on the left.
Old timey Hollywood Land sign (circa 1930) |
That's odd since, allegedly, it's the tallest mountain in the world. It's actually probably about the fourth or fifth tallest, behind Mt. Sumeru (which may have sunk and become the current tallest) Mt. Mauna Kea, K2 above ancient Gandhara (the Buddha's country Afghanistan-Pakistan), and one that allegedly bulges at the equator to be the tallest when measured from the center of the planet.
List of mountain peaks by prominence. The iconic Hollywood sign rests on the scrub brush slopes of Mt. Lee in Hollywood along Beechwood Canyon, the street the first Theravada Buddhist temple in Los Angeles was set up by the Sri Lankan community (farther south right next to Hollywood Blvd.)
The name of the mountain (Mt. Lee) separating Hollywood from The Valley is not "Mt. H Sign," and Mt. Everest isn't the name of the peak in Nepal. Its actual name is Sagarmatha ("Goddess of the Sky") in Nepal and Qomolangma ("Holy Mother") in Tibet.
Bonkers history of (and treacherous journey to) both sides of the Hollywood sign
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Griffith Park Observatory's clear view of the sign |
"Which one's Everest?" #1 question on flight to summit
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