Not only is it bang next door to Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in Britain, but it also boasts the country's highest ski run, at 4000 feet. |
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Here, the sheer cliffs of the northwest side of Britain's highest mountain Ben Nevis soar to a giddying 2000 feet. |
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On a summer's day Ben Nevis appears to be a benign environment, with a track leading to the summit used by around 70,000 walkers a year. |
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A bungee jumper plunges from a platform suspended between two mountains and 440 feet above the Nevis River. |
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With such visible history, the sun-blackened ruins poking out from the undergrowth and overgrowth, Nevis is fun to explore. |
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To our right Ben Nevis guarded the loch, but we never saw the mountain, shrouded in low rain clouds and mist. |
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It rains for much of the evening and our view of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain, is shrouded behind dense clouds. |
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Staveley's Rob Jebb capped a magnificent season on the fells, fulfilling one of his dreams by winning Saturday's Ben Nevis race. |
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This is a place where traditions run deep, and where the long shadow of Ben Nevis seems to add a sense of permanence to the town. |
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Saint Kitts and Nevis have good health care with a sufficiency of doctors who are usually British or Canadian trained. |
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It doesn't diminish the summit of breathtaking Ben Nevis that you can see the pinprick of a Safeway and McDonald's from the top. |
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The climbers will ascend the mountains of Ben Nevis in Scotland, Scafell Pike in England and Snowdon in Wales as part of their trek. |
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We'll end our journey in triumph with the ascent of Ben Nevis, Scotland's highest mountain. |
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And here was I, luxuriating in the charms of Nevis, one of the loveliest islands in the Caribbean, responsibility looming ominously overhead. |
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The longest leg of the journey is then the sail to Fort William and the final ascent of Ben Nevis. |
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Nevis came next, and we were lodged again beside the sea, this time in the huge Four Seasons hotel, which has taken over the best beach on the island. |
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As well as riding the Cairngorm funicular and the Nevis Range gondola, visitors are being encouraged to pursue a widening variety of warm weather sports. |
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It has steep, craggy slopes and can be reached from Glen Nevis via Meall. |
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Below Steall, the Water of Nevis is no less than a thundering cataract, as it flows from the flats and gouges its way through and down a tight narrow gorge. |
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Another plan to release plots of land to build a new community in the once-thriving crofting township of Stoul, on Loch Nevis, was vetoed by the Mackays. |
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The scouts have recently returned from a two-week trip to the Caribbean islands of Anguilla, St Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda. |
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The marriage was registered at Fig Tree Church in St John's Parish on Nevis. |
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Kitts and Nevis, with an administrator representing the British Government on the islands. |
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The more rugged Highland region contains the majority of Scotland's mountainous terrain, including the highest peak, Ben Nevis. |
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The popular tourist path from Glen Nevis skirts the side of this hill before ascending Ben Nevis's broad western flank. |
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Ben Nevis is all that remains of a Devonian volcano that met a cataclysmic end in the Carboniferous period around 350 million years ago. |
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Rainfall on Ben Nevis is about twice as high in the winter as it is in the spring and summer. |
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Bridges from the Visitor Centre and the youth hostel now allow access from the west side of Glen Nevis. |
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This tells the story of the funding, building and operating of the Ben Nevis Observatory in Fort William, Scotland. |
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The north face of Ben Nevis is riven with buttresses, ridges, towers and pinnacles, and contains many classic scrambles and rock climbs. |
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The next contracted works will resume towards the end of September, after the Ben Nevis Race, for stage two of the project. |
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The Ben Nevis Distillery is a single malt whisky distillery at the foot of the mountain, located by Victoria Bridge to the north of Fort William. |
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Ben Nevis was the name of a White Star Line packet ship which in 1854 carried the group of immigrants who were to become the Wends of Texas. |
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By 1672 a slave depot existed on the island of Nevis, serving the Leeward Islands. |
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Kitts and Nevis on 12 February, despite a British naval victory on 25 January, and Montserrat on 22 February. |
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The range includes many of the highest mountains in the British Isles, including Ben Nevis and Ben Macdui the two highest. |
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Six citizens from Iran, Afghanistan, and Saint Kitts and Nevis are also the targets for penalties. |
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The United States established diplomatic relations with Saint Kitts and Nevis in 1983 following its independence from the United Kingdom. |
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Lovebirds Stefan and Beth Davies, a Durham University researcher, feared for their lives after becoming stuck up Ben Nevis. |
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Kitts and Nevis, currently serves as Chief of Staff to the OAS Secretary General. |
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The four-year-old miniature pinscher ran off during a thunderstorm while on a camping holiday in Glen Nevis with his owner. |
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And the Nevis Bakery, Fort William, won the speciality section for their peppered steak and black pudding pie. |
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The first recorded ascent of Ben Nevis was made on 17 August 1771 by James Robertson, an Edinburgh botanist, who was in the region to collect botanical specimens. |
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An example of a FSO that used to be an oil tanker is the Knock Nevis. |
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The area is very sparsely populated, with many mountain ranges dominating the region, and includes the highest mountain in the British Isles, Ben Nevis. |
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The goal of the revolution was not independence per se, but rather independence from Saint Kitts and Nevis and a return to being a British colony. |
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In 1967, Britain granted Saint Kitts and Nevis full internal autonomy. |
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A mountain in Svalbard is also named Ben Nevis, after the Scottish peak. |
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Ben Nevis is becoming popular with ski mountaineers and boarders. |
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In 2000, the Ben Nevis Estate, comprising all of the south side of the mountain including the summit, was bought by the Scottish conservation charity the John Muir Trust. |
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It was not until 1847 that Ben Nevis was confirmed by the Ordnance Survey as the highest mountain in Britain and Ireland, ahead of its rival Ben Macdhui. |
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Nelson and Nisbet were married at Montpelier Estate on the island of Nevis on 11 March 1787, shortly before the end of his tour of duty in the Caribbean. |
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During the visit the scouts were hosted at receptions by the Governor of Anguilla and the Governors General of St Kitts and Nevis and Antigua and Barbuda. |
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