Number three. China holds the world record for the greatest elevation range in a single country. China goes from sky high to way below sea level. At one end, you've got Mount Everest, the tallest mountain on Earth. At the other, the Turpan Depression, a lowland that sinks 154 meters below sea level. The total elevation difference? A jaw-dropping 9,002 meters, the greatest range within any country on the planet. Number four. You can walk from the U.S. to Russia on ice.

The zoo population of gorillas are Western lowland gorillas, for the most part.

In an historic first, a team of primatologists has succeeded in teaching Quigley, a Western lowland gorilla, the concept of mortality and his inevitable doom.

Then you have the Franco-Hungarian military officer Baron de Toth poetically exclaiming that "the steepest places have always been the asylum of liberty." But the great French historian Fernand Braudel probably summed it up best when he wrote: "The mountains, as a rule, are a world apart from civilization, which are an urban and lowland achievement.

Although it thrives in tropical climates, it can be grown in both upland and lowland regions as long as it receives enough water.

For now, there is still life in the mountains of Afar, but the lowland is already inhospitable.

The mountains have changed from this dry, kind of high alpine into lowland jungle with lots of vegetation, a beautiful flowing river next to us.

Oh, and lowland peer.

her some sort of nonhuman toy from one of the lowland towns, Charin I think. It was

In more temperate parts of the world, population densities are usually higher in flat lowland environments.