Washington County is a terrain of gentle hills and close valleys that grows more rugged as you get east over toward the Vermont border, where the Green Mountains begin in earnest.
Some 500 members who take their hives across the border in early summer to Kyrgyzstan's cooler mountains had been learning the letter of the law to counter the border guards' demands for bribes.
The last section of road corkscrewed into almost unimaginably dense jungle mountains that marked the border.
To the north is the highest step, the majestic snow-capped mountains that mark the border with China.
BBC: Long-distance swimming in Nepal��s glacial mountain lakes
The PKK has battled the Turkish state since 1984, operating from camps in mountains along the Iraqi border.
Mr Romero fought for the demarcation of Yukpa lands in the Perija mountains, near the border with Colombia.
Col Thierry Burkhard said the "fairly significant" targets had been hit in the Aguelhok mountains near the Algerian border, according to the AFP news agency.
However many weapons they hand over, there is little to stop the fighters hiding their best equipment in the mountains on the Kosovan border, terrain they have controlled since February.
Aguelhok is a remote town close to mountains and the Algerian border -- in a region where many Islamist fighters had regrouped in the face of the French push toward the main cities of the north.
Blocked off on its northern, western, and southern sides by rivers and mountains, it would moreover be a mere 14 miles distant from the official Pakistan border a porous boundary that meant little to the insurgents who regularly crossed it to kill Americans and Afghan government officials before taking refuge in caves or in the mountains or returning to their haven across the border.
CNN: Excerpt: 'The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor'
Bin Laden and about 300 followers made their escape, presumably following old smuggling trails out of the mountains and across the Pakistani border.
Arizona's Mountain Empire - tucked between the Mexican border and the Santa Rita and Patagonia mountains - is a breezy haven for bird-watchers and wine-tasters.
The area where the two got lost is in a section of forest in the Santa Ana Mountains that lies along the border of Orange and Riverside counties southeast of Los Angeles.
Some 1, 000 Chadian troops began moving out of Kidal toward the wild Ifhogas mountains further north and the Algerian border.
That's the same ethnic group as the Taliban operating in neighboring Afghanistan and in the nearby mountains of Pakistan's tribal border area.
Clustered to the west and south of the Zagros Mountains, which loom across the border in Iran, this is a geological El Dorado.
One of these is the 8km walk from Guankeng to Lingjiao, two tiny villages located further north in the mountains near the Jiangxi-Anhui border.
The area is in a section of the national forest in the Santa Ana Mountains, which lie along the border of Orange and Riverside counties southeast of Los Angeles.
The aircraft collided in a remote portion of the Yuma Training Range Complex on the California side of the Chocolate Mountains very close to the Arizona border, Ms. Dooley said.
Hamilton was a military engineer who spent four years from 1928 to 1932 building this road through the mountains connecting Erbil to the Iranian border to open up a route through to Tehran.
It came, unexpectedly, on a side trip into the mountains of northern Vietnam, near the border with China and Laos.
The battle comes just a few days after Turkey's parliament voted overwhelmingly to authorize cross-border military attacks against Kurdish rebel camps in the mountains of neighboring Iraq.
Islamist fighters are believed to have fled into the mountains around Kidal, near the Algerian border, where French forces have been carrying out air strikes against them.
Tucked between the Vosges Mountains and the Rhine, hugging the border between France and Germany, Alsace enjoys a cool growing climate similar to that of the Champagne region.
In addition, while the Wazirs control some of the most fertile valleys and lucrative trade routes on the border, the Mehsuds are left with largely barren mountains and barely an exit route which they can undisputedly call their own.
Bauer, Shourd and Fattal left early Friday in a taxi for Ahmed Awa, a touristic town near Iraq's border with Iran, planning to hike in the mountains there, according to Peshrow Ahmed, spokesman for the security manager of Sulaimaniya.
The mountains were made more accessible in 1971 when border restrictions between the emirates were eliminated.
Islamist militants took refuge in the remote mountains in northern Mali, close to the Algerian border, after being forced out of the main towns and cities by French troops backed by jets and helicopters.
The kibbutz, set against the backdrop of the red Edom Mountains and the golden sand dunes of the Jordanian border, is a great place to watch birds migrating to and from Africa by day and gaze at the stars by night.
应用推荐