A great location for preserving the remains of Noah's Ark would be atop Mt. Ararat, buried in stationary ice. No remains have yet to be discovered.

Unfortunately, a lot of the work done on Mt. Ararat has been based on unverifiable hearsay. Eyewitnesses have come forward to account their testimony of seeing the Ark on Mt. Ararat and in some instances testified to actually walking on the Ark, but such testimony has not been backed up scientifically. Often the camera ran out of film or the discoverer was shot dead before he could share the news with the world. Some have resorted to sketching Ark shaped images on top of their fuzzy, out of focus photographs (usually taken from great distances) in hopes of tracing out shadows that might have a resemblance of a boat.

Nonetheless, it may be possible that Noah's Ark may be traped in the mountain's permanent ice cap. Several factors must first be answered:

1. Is the ice cap permanent, or is it moving down the mountain in the form of slow moving glaciers?

2. Did the mountain even exist at the time of the flood, or is it a post-flood volcanic mountain? More research on any proposed discoveries of pillow-lava should be done.

While I (Jeremy) believe that satellite images of Mt. Ararat can be helpful, only by the efforts of ground expeditions can sites be verified or checked off the list. Inflatable decoy tanks were used by Saddam Hussein during the gulf war to confuse the United States' satellites hovering 200 miles in space. It wasn't until ground troops arrived did they discover Saddam's creative tactic.

As a personal example, before I departed for Turkey I examined many satellite photographs of Mt. Ararat, but once I began to climb the mountain did I realize that many of those land marks and preconceived notions of the mountain were wrong.

There are several areas on Mt. Ararat that need to be furthered researched with high tech ground penetrating radar. Unfortunately, the Turkish government isn't handing out research permits anytime soon.

Until then, the search goes on for Noah's Ark in the "mountains of Ararat."

~ Jeremy