Mount Marathon or Marathon Mountain is a mountain directly west of Seward in the Kenai Mountains of Alaska.
The mountain actually derives its name from the ever-popular Mount Marathon Race held every Fourth of July.
Famous quotes containing the words mount and/or marathon:
“For me chemistry represented an indefinite cloud of future potentialities which enveloped my life to come in black volutes torn by fiery flashes, like those which had hidden Mount Sinai. Like Moses, from that cloud I expected my law, the principle of order in me, around me, and in the world.... I would watch the buds swell in spring, the mica glint in the granite, my own hands, and I would say to myself: “I will understand this, too, I will understand everything.””
—Primo Levi (1919–1987)
“In their eyes I have seen
the pin men of madness in marathon trim
race round the track of the stadium pupil.”
—Patricia K. Page (b. 1916)