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Mobile phones function changeably in the mountain areas.
This was no mountain despite its name; it was a monticule.
Many of the other Nepali Sherpas working on the mountain witnessed the avalanche as it covered their friends and fellow workers.
Earlier this month a brand new art museum opened in the posh mountain resort town of aspen, Colorado.
Then they came up against a police patrol on mountain bicycles, which again led to more shooting, without injuries.
But over the years, cloistered in their mountain keep, complete with moat, bender and Patton became ever more reclusive.
The mountain climbers spent a few days acclimatizing themselves to the high altitude.
She wondered why he, who did not usually trouble over trifles, made such a mountain of this molehill.
The generation of an Alpine mountain range is a matter of piling on the nappes.
The Ethiopian Highlands are the largest continuous mountain ranges in Africa, and the Sof Omar Caves contains the largest cave on the continent.
Somalia has a number of local attractions, consisting of historical sites, beaches, waterfalls, mountain ranges and national parks.
The Mousa Ali range is considered the country's highest mountain range, with the tallest peak on the border with Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The mountain village of Triesenberg still preserves features of Walser dialect into the present century.
Other regions were accorded the Imperial immediacy that granted the empire direct control over the mountain passes.
Stones from the mountains were used over mountain ranges, while rammed earth was used for construction in the plains.
Housing development in the Tijuana Hills has led to eradication of many seasonal mountain streams.
Aquatic life in California thrives, from the state's mountain lakes and streams to the rocky Pacific coastline.
Another is the Matthew Flinders Cairn on the side of Arthur's Seat, a small mountain on the shores of Port Phillip Bay, Australia.
In South Korea cairns are quite prevalent, often found along roadsides and trails, up on mountain peaks, and adjacent to Buddhist temples.
The central cores of major mountain ranges consist of intrusive igneous rocks, usually granite.
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On Earth, rifts can occur at all elevations, from the sea floor to plateaus and mountain ranges in continental crust or in oceanic crust.
An interesting feature on the mountain is the presence of several large partly buried granite boulders at about 800 m on the broad west ridge.
The other major mountain ranges in Scotland are the Northwest Highlands and the Southern Uplands.
In the Alps, the mountain hare lives at elevations from 700 to 3800 m, depending on biographic region and season.
The mountain hare is a large species, though it is slightly smaller than the European hare.
In summer, for all populations of mountain hares, the coat is various shades of brown.
Studies have shown that the diet of the mountain hare varies from region to region.
Given a choice, mountain hares in Scotland and Ireland seem to prefer feeding on grasses.
In northern parts of Finland, Norway and Sweden, the mountain hare and the European hare compete for habitat.
The main mountain ranges are the Mournes, Sperrins, Croaghgorms and Derryveagh Mountains.
Popular activities in the national parks include hill walking, hiking, canoeing, mountain biking, kayaking and climbing.
A glacier that fills a valley is called a valley glacier, or alternatively an alpine glacier or mountain glacier.
A large body of glacial ice astride a mountain, mountain range, or volcano is termed an ice cap or ice field.
The Silures resisted this invasion fiercely from their mountain strongholds, but the Romans eventually prevailed.
For several hundred years the valley of the River Taff was heavily wooded, with a few scattered farms on the mountain slopes.
There are several cairns and the remains of a circular British encampment on the mountain between Aberdare and Merthyr.
In the 1920s, a major unemployment relief programme for out of work miners was created to build mountain roads connecting communities together.
The mountain is used by the military as part of the selection process of the UK's Special Forces personnel.
To the east, the ridge drops steeply to the col connecting it to Cribyn, the next mountain along the ridge.
Thermochemical techniques can be used to determine temperature profiles within the crust, the uplift of mountain ranges, and paleotopography.
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This helps to show the relationship between erosion and the shape of a mountain range.
The B4574 mountain road linking the town to Rhayader is described by the AA as one of the ten most scenic drives in the world.
Near Blaenau Ffestiniog there are miles of mountain landscape with derelict quarries, rivers, various lakes and walking routes.
Several new mountain biking trails have been installed with some suitable for competition level mountain biking.
Various walkways have also been installed, as well as a series of downhill mountain biking trials by Antur Stiniog.
It is the mountain equivalent of the closely related common blackbird, and breeds in gullies, rocky areas or scree slopes.
The old mountain road to Dwygyfylchi and Penmaenmawr runs through the Sychnant Pass, at the foot of Conwy Mountain.
Though present in Aquitaine, its numbers have been dropping since the 1950s, and is very rare in the mountain regions.
This climate is also referred to as a mountain climate or highland climate.
The most notable of the early stone markers still in its original place is on a high mountain ridge at Gelligaer.
It is bordered by a low mountain range to the south and surrounded by flat farmland to the north and west.
Augustus John and his student James Dickson Innes spent two years painting in the Arenig valley around 1910, especially the mountain Arenig Fawr.
The remaining sections within subgenus Narcissus include both lowland and mountain habitats.
Welsh had a history of boxing in his family, with his paternal grandfather being a mountain fighter.
Glamorganshire mountain sheep wandered over the countryside from early times, some being horned and others being polled.
There were 128,865 acres of mountain or heathland used for grazing, with 10,000 acres of managed or unmanaged woodland.
They also actively avoid fresh water from mountain snowmelt, diving until they find enough salt.
Chameleons inhabit all kinds of tropical and mountain rain forests, savannas, and sometimes deserts and steppes.
Other barriers, such as mountain ranges, can also cause funnelling, particularly of large diurnal migrants.
The later half of the period experienced glaciations, low sea level, and mountain building as the continents collided to form Pangaea.
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Such active rifting lifted great undersea mountain chains along the welts, raising eustatic sea levels worldwide.
The lakes are small but numerous, located mainly in mountain valleys or glacial corries.
The interior mountains, especially Nebrodi, Madonie and Etna, enjoy a fully mountain climate, with heavy snowfalls during winter.
The secondary inland and mountain roads are generally narrow with many hairpin turns, so the speed limits are very low.
The Teide volcano on Tenerife is the highest mountain in Spain, and the third tallest volcano on Earth on a volcanic ocean island.
The Scandinavian mountain range generally defines the border between Norway and Sweden.
On the northeast, along the Pyrenees mountain range, it is bordered by France and the Principality of Andorra.
Mainland Spain is a mountainous country, dominated by high plateaus and mountain chains.
In high mountain regions, streams frequently rise on sunny days and fall on cloudy ones for this reason.
The flow of cold, gray mountain water continues for some distance into the lake.
From here, the urban area of Bergen extends to the north, west and south, and to its east is a large mountain massif.
In this process, two continents are sutured together and large mountain ranges are produced.
Needless to say, in mountain ranges where elevations are far above sea level these criteria are not always easily met.
First, shrinking land ice, such as mountain glaciers and polar ice sheets, is releasing water into the oceans.
In Southeast Asia, many smaller mountain glaciers formed, and permafrost covered Asia as far south as Beijing.
In Africa and the Middle East, many smaller mountain glaciers formed, and the Sahara and other sandy deserts were greatly expanded in extent.
It had been no easy matter when he first drifted in mysteriously out of nowhere to their little mountain cottage.
Convoy driving is initiated when the strong wind quickly fills the road with snow behind snowplows, particularly on mountain passes.
Rescue services, including local mountain rescue and cave rescue groups, frequently use the gorge to stage exercises.
About 25 species are rated by the IUCN as endangered, such as the dama gazelle and mountain nyala.
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Recent global warming has caused mountain glaciers and the ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica to melt and global sea level to rise.
The Himalayas, the world's tallest mountain range, are assumed to have been formed by the collision of two major plates.
Gilbert in 1890 to describe the process of mountain building as distinguished from epeirogeny.
The foreland basin forms ahead of the orogen due mainly to loading and resulting flexure of the lithosphere by the developing mountain belt.
Such erosional material of a growing mountain chain is called molasse and has either a shallow marine or a continental facies.
The foothills and river valleys between the mountain ranges provide a mosaic of cropland and deciduous parklands.
They willingly eat the berries of mountain ash, lily of the valley, bilberries, blueberries and cowberry.
Wolves encounter cougars along portions of the Rocky Mountains and adjacent mountain ranges.
Some young birds disperse long distances, especially on coasts, and mountain birds move to lower elevations in winter.
A population in the Sierra de Gredos mountain range is facing predation by otters and increased competition from the frog Pelophylax perezi.
The plants can take deep freezes and are found growing wild on mountain highlands.
Geologically, West Antarctica closely resembles the Andes mountain range of South America.
The Cyclops then throws the top half of a mountain at him and prays to his father, Poseidon, saying that Odysseus has blinded him.
The Middle Atlas is a portion of the Atlas mountain range lying completely in Morocco.
The Saharan Atlas of Algeria is the eastern portion of the Atlas mountain range.
The Himalayas between Nepal and China is the tallest mountain range in the world.
The Caribbean sea floor is divided into five basins separated from each other by underwater ridges and mountain ranges.
Cox, this mountain range was breached in Late Cretaceous times by the formation of the Mississippi Embayment.
A team led by Marie Tharp and Bruce Heezen analyzed the data and concluded that there was an enormous mountain chain running up the middle.
These are often marked by uplift and volcanic mountain belts on the continental plate.
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During collisions between two continental plates, large mountain ranges, such as the Himalayas are formed.
Although commonly referred to as a mountain chain, the Carpathians do not actually form an uninterrupted chain of mountains.
An iceberg or ice mountain is a large piece of freshwater ice that has broken off a glacier or an ice shelf and is floating freely in open water.
The folded Cape Supergroup formed the northern foothills of this towering mountain range.
The Cape Fold Mountains became fully formed during this period to become the northern foothills of this enormous mountain range.
It is in the Eifel mountain range, and is part of the East Eifel volcanic field within the larger Vulkaneifel.
In Ethiopia and North Africa, permanent snow was reported on mountain peaks at levels where it does not occur today.
Undersea mountain ranges can separate underwater regions into different ecosystems.
Examples of heavily eroded mountain ranges include the Timanides of Northern Russia.
Also, the plateaux and low mountain ranges in this region have a significant impact on how cold it might get during winter.
Downhill mountain biking has just evolved in the recent years and is performed at places such as Whistler Mountain Bike Park.
In the past decade, mountain bike racing has also reached international popularity and is even an Olympic sport.
Snowfall is common in the eastern and southern parts of the South Island and mountain areas across the country.
Petroglyphs on a rock wall found in the Sierra Madre mountain range, Rizal, Philippines.
Note the course of the Great Escarpment to the north of these mountain ranges.
Most of the area is covered by mountain ranges running from the northwest to southeast.
The maar lake is within the Eifel mountain range, and is part of the East Eifel volcanic field within the larger Vulkaneifel.
This set the border on the Karawanken mountain range, with many Slovenes remaining in Austria.
Western Greece contains a number of lakes and wetlands and is dominated by the Pindus mountain range.
The few men who continued the journey with Balboa entered the mountain range along the Chucunaque River the next day.
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At a hermitage on a mountain near Sinjar, he met a Kurdish mystic who gave him some silver coins.
From there, he journeyed south to Afghanistan, then crossed into India via the mountain passes of the Hindu Kush.
Plains and mountain zebra foals are protected by their mothers, as well as the head stallion and the other mares in their group.
Both mountain zebra subspecies are currently protected in national parks, but are still endangered.
In the given example, the large mountain in the second photo was selected as the target destination on the map.
Roger Collins suggests this may be because some Berbers were familiar with mountain terrain, whereas the Arabs were not.
Snow does, however, occasionally fall on the mountain peaks and can be seen from the town on rare occasions.
Monte Pascoal is a mountain to the south of the city of Porto Seguro, in the state of Bahia, Brazil.
Winters are very cold in the west, and it snows in the mountain ranges, while in the western regions, windy days are more common.
The Aconcagua, the highest mountain in the Americas and in the entire world outside the Himalayas, Argentina.
Seram is traversed by a central mountain range, the highest point of which, Mount Binaiya, is covered with dense rain forests.
Being a mountainous country, Iran is a venue for skiing, snowboarding, hiking, rock climbing, and mountain climbing.
The Tairona inhabited northern Colombia in the isolated mountain range of Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.
The diversity of climate zones in Colombia is characterized for having tropical rainforests, savannas, steppes, deserts and mountain climate.
Located in between the Sierra Madre and the Cordillera Central mountain ranges is the large Cagayan Valley.
The Sierra Madre mountain range continues to stretch across the western section of Central Luzon, snaking southwards into the Bicol Peninsula.
The narrow, slippery road in the mountain mists was treacherous for mule trains, and in some cases mules were hoisted by ropes.
Various other smaller mountain ranges occur both north and west of the central ranges.
The mountain range of the divide is called the Cordillera de Talamanca near the Costa Rican border.
Temperatures are markedly cooler in the higher parts of the mountain ranges, and frosts occur in the Cordillera de Talamanca in western Panama.
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In the mountain region, rain is frequent in summer, and temperature and humidity diminish with altitude up to the frozen peaks of the Andes.
His body is lost, but now appears as a mountain range present surrounding the valley in the shape of a man's body.
It also has rolling hills and rugged mountain ranges traversing the northern and southern lengths of the island.
Sections of the flood basalts have been eroded away, but still form a basaltic mountain range known as North Mountain.
The Upstate region contains the roots of an ancient, eroded mountain chain.
To the east of the mountain range, the Sonoran Desert dominates the landscape.
Valleys between the mountain ranges are located within a climate zone that are suitable for agriculture.
The highest mountain in the Sierra de los Cucapah is the Cerro del Centinela or Mount Signal.
The mountain range forms part of the conventional boundary between the continents of Europe and Asia.
Intensive weathering has produced vast areas of eroded stone on the mountain slopes and summits of the northern areas.
Spas and sanatoriums have been built to take advantage of the medicinal muds found in some of the mountain lakes.
The mountain ridges, elongated from north to south, effectively absorb sunlight thereby increasing the temperature.
Similarly, a mountain in the Perm Region made up of three cliff stacks is called the Yermak Stone after Yermak.
A complicated net of forestry roads in the areas adjacent to Khuzhir leads to woodland areas on the mountain slopes.
Other trees in the island taiga are the Siberian spruce, the Dahurian larch and the mountain pine.
Starting in the 1540s a growing amount of silver was shipped to Europe from mines in Mexico and the Potosi mountain in Peru.
The state is crossed by several mountain ranges which have mountains between 2,300 and 3,000 meters high.
The distribution areas of the paper birch, the trembling aspen and the mountain ash cover more than half of Quebec territory.
Because of the extensive length of the mountain chain, noticeable variation also exists within this subdialect.
Southern Appalachian speech patterns, however, are not entirely confined to the mountain regions previously listed.
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Coyotes, bears, and mountain lions which occasionally kill porcupines are sometimes quilled.
From 1861 Indian artillery was replaced by British units, except for a few mountain batteries.
Along the eastern border with Mozambique is the Lubombo, a mountain ridge, at an altitude of around 600 metres.
Water comes from the mountain behind the station, through the black pipe seen in the photo.
Kendal has for many years maintained a voluntary mountain search and rescue team based at Busher Walk.
They have performed numerous rescues around the Kendal area, and along with other local mountain rescue teams, helped at the Grayrigg derailment.
It includes ghyll scrambling, mountain biking, guided walks, map reading, canoeing, climbing, a triathlon and other events.
Each year, on Easter Monday, a duck race is organised by the local mountain rescue team to raise funds.
Kirkstone Pass is a mountain pass in the English Lake District, in the county of Cumbria.
A small mountain in the Newlands region which is a short walk from Braithwaite.
The Wrynose Pass is a mountain pass in the Lake District National Park in Cumbria, England between the Duddon Valley and Little Langdale.
The Newlands Pass, also known as Newlands Hause, is a mountain pass in the English Lake District.
Moorland and woodland habitats are being improved for birds as well as the rare small mountain ringlet butterfly.
Creating passages for trains up steep hills and through mountain regions offers many obstacles which call for special technical solutions.
Taken as a whole the region is characterised by mountain ridges splaying out from a central core.
Its more specific use as a mountain lake emerges as it is the commonly used term for all ponds in the upland areas of Northern England.
Fern species live in a wide variety of habitats, from remote mountain elevations, to dry desert rock faces, to bodies of water or in open fields.
High Stile is a mountain in the western part of the Lake District in North West England.
In the east, where the mountain scenery is so much more stirring to begin with, Patterdale provides the focal point.
Rare to Britain species of alpine butterfly, the mountain ringlet, also live on and around Helvellyn.
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Many routes up the mountain are possible so that it may be approached from all directions.
It is only since the late eighteenth century that people have visited the mountain for pleasure or recreation.
Harter Fell is a mountain in the western part of the English Lake District, located between the Eskdale and Duddon valleys.
Much of High Furness consists of moorland, mountain or woodland environments.
The Skiddaw Group is a group of sedimentary rock formations named after the mountain Skiddaw in the English Lake District.
The lift of the air up the side of the mountain results in adiabatic cooling, and ultimately condensation and precipitation.
The peregrine falcon lives mostly along mountain ranges, river valleys, coastlines, and increasingly in cities.
In many countries, cairns, as they are called in Scotland, are used as road and mountain top markers.
For mountain range peak lists, attaining the goal provides the peak bagger with a deeper appreciation for the topography of the range.
A mountain is a large landform that stretches above the surrounding land in a limited area, usually in the form of a peak.
A few mountains are isolated summits, but most occur in huge mountain ranges.
About half of mountain dwellers live in the Andes, Central Asia, and Africa.
Traditional mountain societies rely on agriculture, with higher risk of crop failure than at lower elevations.
More recently, tourism supports mountain communities, with some intensive development around attractions such as national parks or ski resorts.
Most of the world's rivers are fed from mountain sources, with snow acting as a storage mechanism for downstream users.
Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains.
It is built on mountain tops, and was meant to defend against invaders from the north, and among others, Mongolians.
Typical events include guided walks, mountain bike rides, horse rides, orienteering events and evening talks by noted speakers.
A spur is a lateral ridge or tongue of land descending from a hill, mountain or main crest of a ridge.
The northern and southern segments comprise parallel chains that can be viewed as single overall mountain ridges, such as the Ligurian Mountains.
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Livy says that the pass was not named after the Carthaginians but after a mountain god.
He did not desire to cross this rugged mountain chain and to descend into the Po valley with exhausted troops only to have to fight a battle.
Foothills are geographically defined as gradual increase in elevation at the base of a mountain range, higher hill range or an upland area.
Cross Fell is the highest mountain in the Pennine Hills of Northern England and the highest point in England outside the Lake District.
Mickle Fell is a mountain in the Pennines, the range of hills and moors running down the middle of Northern England.
The base of the mountain is composed of ancient Silurian and Ordovician rocks which are exposed in the valley bottoms to the north of Ingleton.
Important mountain peaks visible from Ingleborough are listed here, clockwise from north, with their distance in miles and bearing in degrees.
Other activities include cycling, mountain biking, horse riding and caving.
The condition exists because warm moist air rises by orographic lifting to the top of a mountain range.
At the adiabatic dew point, moisture condenses onto the mountain and it precipitates on the top and windward sides of the mountain.
More pronounced effects are observed, however, in particular valley regions within the Cordillera, in the direct lee of specific mountain ranges.
It has often been used for domestic competition in British road racing and mountain biking.
At scales between entire mountain ranges and ore bodies, Bouguer anomalies may indicate rock types.
Though hillwalking can entail scrambling in order to reach a mountain summit, it is not mountaineering.
Much of the area can be seen only by hikers who travel without trails to the higher reaches of this rugged mountain range.
We passed over the shoulder of a ridge and around the edge of a fire slash, and then we had the mountain fairly before us.
I rode down the mountain to get the powder he needed to soften his cough. He said he couldn't breathe.
There are 300 steps to the mountain and it is strainsome to ascend the stairs.
The Accounts department climbed a mountain together as a teambuilding exercise.
Hence, there are no mountain tops one can scale to directly gaze at vast expanses of the abyssal seafloor.
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In the confusion, I manage to squeeze free between a mountain weregoat wrestling with a pygmy weremammoth and a Yoshi.
I went to the Tucson Gem Trade Exhibition and then flew over brown and whitecapped mountain ridges and giant green squares to New York City.
The gale scouring the exposed surface of the mountain had swept the snow surface into a wind-board crust.
A NEW walkway could be built near the mountain where a Merseyside man fell to his death.
Unlike the Russian desman, the Pyrenean species lives along fast-flowing mountain streams.
The fretful tinkling of the convent bell evermore dinging among the mountain echoes.
O beautiful for spacious skies, for amber wafes of grain, for purple mountain majesties above the fruited plain!
On the high mountain tops, species including ptarmigan, mountain hare and stoat can be seen in their white colour phase during winter months.
On 21 April 1500 a mountain was seen and was named Monte Pascoal, and on the 22nd of April Cabral landed on the coast.
The houses of the central village were quite unlike the casual and higgledy-piggledy agglomeration of the mountain villages he knew.
One part of the split mountain is Gibraltar and the other is either Monte Hacho or Jebel Musa.
The Canadian zone mammals include the mountain weasel, snowshoe hare, and several species of chipmunks.
His younger brother Kumbhakarna was said to be as tall as a mountain and was quite good natured.
Scientific studies confirm that the Capivara mountain range was densely populated in prehistoric periods.
The mountain scenery he saw led to a lifelong taste for mountain landscapes.
The team reported from the legendary Khyber Pass and infamous Tora Bora mountain complex.
Hiking, climbing, skiing and mountain biking and attract numerous tourists every year from all over the world.
In England, a mountain is officially defined as land over 600 metres, so most fall in Northern England.
The jagged Cuillin, on the Isle of Skye, represents a major mountain range that is not located on the Scottish mainland.
Both are located in the Cairngorms, a mountain range in the eastern Highlands which is the highest upland area in Britain.
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In the south of Scotland lie the Southern Uplands, a vast, rolling mountain chain that is less rugged and more forested than the Highlands.
The meteorological data collected during this period are still important for understanding Scottish mountain weather.
The mountain is now all that remains of the imploded inner dome of the volcano.
The twenty years' worth of readings still provide the most comprehensive set of data on mountain weather in Great Britain.
Ben Nevis's popularity, climate and complex topography contribute to a high number of mountain rescue incidents.
Work to upgrade the mountain track started in November 2015 after two contracts were awarded to McGowan Ltd.
Volunteer effort has already been a huge help and will continue to be a large contributing factor to the overall upgrade of the mountain track.
The uplands support black and red grouse, mountain hares, raptors such as golden eagles and hen harriers, and some unusual plant species.
The 7stanes are seven mountain biking centres spanning the south of Scotland, from the heart of the Scottish Borders to Dumfries and Galloway.
It is formed as a mountain stream drops over a cliff and changes character to a lowland river, the Afon Rhaeadr.
The Brecon Beacons national park covers about a third of South Wales, containing Pen y Fan, the highest mountain south of Snowdonia.
Many inexperienced walkers have been killed over the years attempting to climb the mountain via the main paths.
This was formerly the Saracen's Head Inn, but was renamed under the ownership of the mountain guide John Morton.
Another possible explanation is that the path was named after the nearby Pen y Gwryd Hotel, popular amongst the early mountain walkers.
Single carriage trains are pushed up the mountain by either steam locomotives or diesel locomotives.
Up until the 1830s, people would climb the mountain as part of a yearly pilgrimage, which may have originally been a Lughnasadh ritual.
During the Survey, two men died in a snowstorm on their way down the mountain and others were hurt during storms on the summit.
This is my backyard and l don't necessarily want a whole bunch of moegoes banging along a mountain l've known since my barefoot boerseun days.
The mountain road had several lookouts where you could enjoy the view.
The mountain range forms a natural barrier between the two countries.
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She climbed the mountain with a 40-pound pack strapped to her back.
Unfortunately mountain climbers, like everybody else, need to answer the call of nature, and there are few toilet facilities on mountains.
Did it belong to South America or to Antarctica? Where was the junction or separation of the Andean and Antarctican mountain systems?
Mike looked up from the arduous mountain trail. They'd been climbing for five hours and he was beginning to feel irritable.
The Ambassador's bangalo stood at the base of a mountain covered with jungle, of which he had a portion cleared to provide a promenade.
To cap the feat, their leader made a breath-catching descent by what mountain men call a rappel, riding down a rope almost 400 feet.
To view this mountain I and my little family set off in a caleche on the third morning after our arrival at Bangor.
The catchment area is the slope of a great mountain range covered with fine forests, and there are many good reservoir sites.
Those deep, dark slots in a mountain known as couloirs are often the most obvious routes of ascent.
These exemptions were similar to those granted to the derbendci, men who guarded roads and mountain passes.
The major rivers flow through the wide valleys between the mountain systems.
It also allowed the growing of potatoes in bogs as well as on mountain slopes where no other cultivation could take place.
Permafrost can be found all year in the higher mountain areas and in the interior of Finnmark county.
The British Isles lie at the juncture of several regions with past episodes of tectonic mountain building.
Woods, hedgerows, mountain slopes and marshes host heather, wild grasses, gorse and bracken.
Most of this region rests on the Indian Plate and is isolated from the rest of Asia by large mountain barriers.
The recent use of some paths by mountain bikers is believed by some to have exacerbated an existing problem.
The downland is an extremely popular recreational destination, particularly for walkers, horseriders and mountain bikers.
Piran is a mountain in Banff National Park near Lake Louise, Alberta, Canada, named after the saint.
If you're stuck in traffic, try not to make a mountain out of a molehill worrying about it too much. It could be much worse.
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Genghis Khan usually fasted, prayed and meditated on this mountain before his campaigns.
In Greek Mythology, the deadly monster Typhon was trapped under the mountain by Zeus, the god of the sky.
The mountain countries of Nepal and Bhutan, and the island countries of Sri Lanka and Maldives are generally included as well.
According to the Freie Universitaet Berlin, this mountain chain is classified as South Central European.
Granite intrusions are found in the parish of Barvas in west Lewis, and another forms the summit plateau of the mountain Roineabhal in Harris.
He begins as a wanderer, aimless on a sea he does not understand, and ends as a pilgrim, crossing a final mountain to enter the promised land.
With wife Jessie and younger son John ill, Conrad decided to take refuge in the mountain resort town of Zakopane.
The durable, dark-colored wood of the coast myall or mountain brigalow has been likened to that of English walnut.
On the Snaefell mountain road section from Ramsey to Douglas, the official vehicle displays the notice Roads Open One Way.
An attempt was made to use native Argentine mountain ash, but it proved too heavy and lacking in pliability.
The Vikings, however, did not subdue the Welsh mountain kingdoms.
Particularly in pastoral mountain peoples, social organization tends to hinge primarily on familial identification, not a wider collective identity.
The Confederacy, governed by nobles of various cantons, facilitated management of common interests and ensured peace on the important mountain trade routes.
Adits are driven into the side of a hill or mountain, and are often used when an ore body is located inside the mountain but above the adjacent valley floor or coastal plain.
Aran Fawddwy is a mountain in southern Snowdonia, Wales, United Kingdom.
Germanic tribes charged tolls to travellers across mountain passes.
The most prominent feature of the peninsula is desert, but in the southwest there are mountain ranges, which receive greater rainfall than the rest of the Arabian Peninsula.
This theory is supported by several types of observations, including seafloor spreading and the global distribution of mountain terrain and seismicity.
Much of Yemen has a tropical monsoon rain influenced mountain climate.
Numerical models work in the same way as these analog models, though they are often more sophisticated and can include patterns of erosion and uplift in the mountain belt.

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