There may be more spectacular mountains offering unforeseen horizons at their summits, but Blue Hill is an effortless peak to climb. |
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The prime minister has been embarking on a hectic schedule of overseas trips, summits, policy initiatives, walkabouts and social engagements. |
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The country is sufficiently fertile, covered with corn fields and orchards, and intersected by sudden acclivities with flat summits. |
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Ben Wyvis, for instance, is unlikely to win any prizes in a contest against some of the more shapely Highland summits. |
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The land rises abruptly to highland ridges with mountain summits as high as 3000 feet. |
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The ancient Ural mountains barely poke their summits above the taiga, Siberia's vast conifer forest. |
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Certainly, many boys continue to conquer scholastic summits, especially boys from high-income families with educated parents. |
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A stone cross marks the most sacred point of the pass, the landscape beyond mellowing markedly from jagged, icy summits to rolling undulations. |
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Take one unpopular president, a brace of struggling statesmen and a couple of global summits. |
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The matter was settled in the summits of the Wellington Convention in which the Treaty of Vecca was signed by the top brasses. |
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I walked from the valley below to both of the fog-free summits, buffeted by ocean winds. |
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Jagged spires of rock rise high above the boiling surf, peaking ultimately in tree-covered summits. |
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Their frequent bilateral meetings meant that EU summits were often stitched up in advance. |
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It is unusual to hold high-level negotiations, except summits, outside a country's capital, the sources said. |
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Huge plumes of snow blowing from the summits of some mountains looked like the smoke from great incense offerings. |
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Everywhere you go, from the hot banks of the Dead Sea to the summits of holy mountains, stones are everywhere. |
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Walkers on the Queen's Highland estate were allowed to walk from the Spittle of Muick car park to mountain summits on recognised paths. |
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The road meanders high above the waters of lakes and rivers, embraced by the meringue summits of the mountains. |
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Windhoek promotes it self as an African destination for meetings, conferences, summits, seminars or conventions. |
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These are the priorities raised by residents at community meetings and citizens' summits sponsored by the mayor. |
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These days, representatives of China, Japan and South Korea attend all ASEAN summits and ministerial meetings. |
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They attend European Council summits and can serve as behind-the-scenes consultants. |
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He represents the parliament at Commission meetings and summits with government heads. |
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Dissent information pamphlets were available, describing successful disruption tactics used at previous summits and other government meetings. |
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Black oak, red oak, chinquapin oak, bitternut hickory, and pignut hickory are common near hill summits, where the driest conditions prevail. |
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From the summits of the peaks, you can even glimpse Mount Whitney on a clear day. |
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The summits have pushed for the development of biometric identifiers in visas, residence permits and passports. |
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Through brief windows in the clouds we could see the ridge dropping to a col and rising again to two higher summits. |
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Fired by curiosity, he decided forthwith to find out what had inspired this giddy language of rocky ridges, remote corries and distant summits. |
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Lightning forks scratched their summits and distant rainstorms hung like negligees billowing in the clean air. |
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Great sweeping ridges of sand snaked up to star-shaped, wind-blown summits in perfect crescents. |
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The race takes in the summits of Ingleborough, Whernside and Penyghent and is rated the toughest cyclo-cross event. |
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Hours later, I found the pass at over 18,000 feet, a sharp declivity between two minor summits. |
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The summit is a greenwash of the same things we have heard from G8 summits and the World Trade Organisation. |
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Critics say the summits are just talking shops and photo opportunities. |
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The most important are foreign ministers' meetings and summits of heads of state at which nonaligned policy statements are prepared for action within the UN system. |
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It is but a short hike through a white pine forest from the top of the ski resort chair to the broad expanse of this high bowl, ringed by sharp summits and sawtooth ridges. |
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Sharm el-Sheikh is a popular Red Sea tourist resort that also plays host to political and economic summits, including several meetings on peace in the Middle East. |
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The highest mountains were cloaked in mantles of snow and ice with glaciers perched in the hanging valleys as though suspended by some invisible thread from the summits. |
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One of the high points of these summits, say participants, is mealtime. |
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In years gone by, he had discovered lots of things dropped along the trails by emigrants lightening their wagonloads as they pushed for the mountain summits. |
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At first light, when alpenglow fires the high summits with radiance like the burn of a gigantic campfire, the dusty surface of the old snowpack glows with eerie luster. |
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We climbed slowly towards the Katantika Pass, inching towards the magnificent, glaciated summits of Presidente and Flor, their white snow tinged with glacial blue. |
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On a drizzly morning in Cape Cod, all talk of birthers and beer summits was silenced as hundreds said goodbye to a fallen soldier. |
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The concept is that the formalism of past summits has made meaningful conversation difficult. |
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Not only did it suggest the Minstermen have re-established a base camp from which to rise but they are dusted down and ready to re-conquer earlier summits. |
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Increasingly, peak baggers are also logging their summits online by signing virtual summit logs. |
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For example, each peak is typically enjoyed from multiple aspects as the peak bagger also climbs the major neighboring summits. |
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A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in huge mountain ranges. |
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But if double talk were an indictable offense, there would be few left to attend international summits. |
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In addition to Alaska's Denali, the seven summits include Everest, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Carstenz Pyramid, Aconcagua and Vinson Massif. |
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When the action summits, and when the characters are in a state of repose. |
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It has hosted several summits and is an active contributor to the direction and policies of the bloc. |
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Intensive weathering has produced vast areas of eroded stone on the mountain slopes and summits of the northern areas. |
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In the medieval period hospices were established by religious orders at the summits of many of the main passes. |
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Most stage races have a special category for the best climber, usually by awarding points at the important summits of the race. |
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Along with Eagle Crag and Sergeant's Crag on the Borrowdale side these fells display steep flanks and plenty of rock on the summits. |
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The range begins on the west with Slight Side before rising to the summits of Scafell, Scafell Pike and Great End. |
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Combe Head gives fine views down into Combe Gill and from here it is short climb to the twin summits of Glaramara. |
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This group also includes the Wainwright of Black Fell and the summits of Black Brows and Rusland Heights. |
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Some baggers say peak bagging is a motivation to keep reaching new summits. |
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To gain professional and technical input, Syngenta held two nematologist summits. |
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Burch reached the summits of 23 previously unclimbed high-altitude peaks, breaking the former record of 4 ascents by a Mongolian climber. |
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Since then, he has also reached the summits of Cerro Aconcagua, Vinson Massif, Elbrus, Mount Everest, Carstensz Pyramid and Mount Kosciuszko. |
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Historically these paths were not planned for reaching summits, but more recently they are used by fell walkers for that purpose. |
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The western slopes of these summits tend to be grassy, with rocky corries and crags on the eastern side. |
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There are no high summits in this area which is mainly low hills, knolls and limestone cuestas such as Gummer's How and Whitbarrow. |
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Although many of the summits top 500 metres, most have a relatively low prominence. |
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Canada became the seventh member to begin attending the summits in 1976, after which the name 'Group 7' or G7 Summit was used. |
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Following 1994's G7 summit in Naples, Russian officials held separate meetings with leaders of the G7 after the group's summits. |
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Since the November 2011 Cannes summit, all G20 summits have been held annually. |
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Though the G20's primary focus is global economic governance, the themes of its summits vary from year to year. |
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Since 2011, when France chaired and hosted the G20, the summits have been held only once a year. |
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Typically, several participants that are not permanent members of the G20 are extended invitations to participate in the summits. |
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The president also chairs informal summits of the 19 Member States which use the euro as their currency. |
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The summits of Snowdon and Garnedd Ugain are surrounded by cwms, rounded valleys scooped out by glaciation. |
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It is reached by following the Watkin Path down to Bwlch y Saethau, and then continuing along the ridge to the twin summits of Y Lliwedd. |
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Political direction to the organization is given by heads of state or government during summits. |
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The summits of the Cuillin are bare rock, jagged in outline and with steep cliffs and deep cut corries and gullies. |
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Peaks with low prominence are either subsidiary tops of some higher summit or relatively insignificant independent summits. |
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Only summits with a sufficient degree of prominence are regarded as independent mountains. |
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Erosion of mountains massifs can create a pattern of equally high summits called summit accordance. |
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In his letter, Saleh congratulated Gaddafi on the success of the last Arab and African summits in Sirt city, praising the leader's care of activating the Arab-African work. |
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These summits form a long ridge, and the sections joining the first four form a horseshoe shape around the head of the Taf Fechan, which flows away to the southeast. |
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The Braid Hills and Blackford Hill are a series of small summits to the city's south west that command expansive views looking northwards over the urban area to the Forth. |
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We bobbed in the ocean currents in a 24-foot rubber raft, peering into sea caves, scanning deserted beaches, craning our necks to take in the summits. |
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The nine heads of government meet at summits twice per year. |
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Of lust, that belch incessant from the summits of the earth. |
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Alpine fellfield, on windswept rocky ridges and summits above treeline. |
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Between the summits is Kirkfell Tarn, actually two small tarns. |
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Keswick and Buttermere provide good bases to the north and west while the summits of Honister, Newlands and Whinlatter passes all provide parking. |
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