The Inspiration Behind Avatar's 'Floating Mountains'

Meera Dolasia
Mon, 01 Feb 2010 07:24:00 -0800

While most of Pandora in this year's blockbuster movie 'Avatar' is a figment of Mr. Cameron's vivid imagination, it seems that the 'hallelujah' or 'floating mountains' were inspired by an actual peak of quartz-sandstone that lies deep in the mountains of South Hunan in China.