Tower of the Devil. Do you know her?
Greetings to all my friends from this immense community called Steemit, you know what the Devil's Tower is, when we hear this name, we automatically imagine the "Dark Tower" that appears in his novel The Lord of the Rings you are not we do not talk about that mythical tower, today I come to the real Devil's Tower, a national monument is a physical intrusion or volcanic neck in Black Hills, near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeast of Wyoming in the United States, the Belle Fourche river. It rises dramatically to 386 meters above the adjacent land and its summit is 1,558 meters above sea level. It is formed by basaltic columns.
Torre del Diablo was the first national monument declared in the United States, named on September 24, 1906, by President Theodore Roosevelt. The boundaries of the monument cover an area of 5.45 km².
Recent history of this monument:
The first time that this well-known one of the rock was escalante they realized it in the year 1893 William Rogers and Willard Ripley, ranchers of the neighborhood. When examining the rock, they found a narrow vertical crack that opened in the wall from the beginning of the floor to the summit and for months nailed in the two opposite walls of the crack wooden blocks, joining these blocks with timbers horizontally, achieving So manufacture a ladder. When the Independence Day was celebrated on July 4, 1893, they climbed before the families of the neighborhood ranchers who gathered to watch this spectacle, by the staircase they had built, even crowning the summit. The staircase could be used until 1927 and even today you can see remains of it.
Most visitors who climb through the monument use traditional climbing techniques.
Currently about 1% of its 400,000 visitors a year, climb the monument of the Devil's Tower. It is to note that said monument is also known thanks to the movie Encounters in the third phase, (Close Encounters of the Third Type), for being the point where they meet with the extraterrestrials in said film.
The legend of the Devil's Tower
According to the Native American tribes of the kiowa and the Sioux lakhota, they tell that several girls went out to play outside their camp, when they saw several giant bears and chased them, when they saw no possibility to save themselves, they climbed on top of a rock, and they asked the Great Spirit to please save them from that danger, the Great Spirit constricted that request and made the rock go up to the sky, the bears to see that it was very high. stone, they left very deep marks in it, the young women being on the top of the rock became the constellation of Pléyades.
I hope you like to know a little more about this truly beautiful monument, I hope you have the opportunity to know it and see the greatness of the universe when you have it in front of you, a cordial greeting for each one of you, who see me from that side of the receiver