I took some photographs of Black Mountain, NC that are like that one, Nan. Very dramatic!
It happens to be a Christian resort area, and it's where my mother and father met the summer of 1922, just after she graduated from college, and he was an engineer putting in some of the original power lines in the area.
He went back to Florida - she taught school the next year - 1st and 2nd grades in one class - then the next year they eloped after school was out, marrying in Charleston in a church there her father had when she was a teen!
The highway to Florida was a narrow two-lane crushed shell road, all the way to the Orlando area!
The native Americans called W.Va. "Land of the Mists". It can be very stark and forbidding in the winter. But there is no other place like it in the U.S. I think S. Korea may be a lot like it from pictures I've seen. The mountains here are not like the ones you see in N.C., Tenn and Va. They are closer together and lots of them. The valleys are deep and narrow, providing very little space for people. Those who settle in the valleys get introduced to a lot of water on a regular basis. Floods are a fact of life. There are more trees in W.Va. per acre than any other place I know. Someone from Texas came here and was simply agast. Said they had never seen so many trees in one place in their life.