You have the mountains on one side and the blue sea on the other.
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The authorities say they believe members of the cartel have retreated into the mountains of Michoacan and have taken the body of Mr Moreno, known as "the Craziest One", with them.
Born and raised in Khartoum, the 18-year old is a living testament to how his Nuba traditions have transcended the mountains, competing from boyhood even within the capital.
There is no doubting the team have the ability in the mountains, albeit irregularly.
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.
The BBC's correspondent in Turkey, Jonny Dymond, said that, according to one member of the rescue team which found the group, no one should have been out on the mountains.
Once you have walked on the mountains, the most common way to get inside them is by hiking into the Garganta del Cares.
"Roads are blocked and rescuers have to climb the mountains to reach hard-hit villages, " Li Fuchun, head of Yunnan's Luozehe town, was quoted as saying.
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The ponies have been living in the Carneddau Mountains for thousands of years.
The ice fields in the Himalayan mountains have receded dramatically from their breadth and depth in the 1980s, according to the Australian environmentalist.
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It will be the job of the African Union-backed force, the International Support Mission to Mali (Afisma), to root out the al-Qaeda-linked insurgents that have fled into the desert and mountains further north.
Most of those who intend to come down from the mountains have probably already done so.
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Islamist rebels are believed to have retreated to the Ifoghas mountains - a desert area in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria - after being forced from northern population centres in recent weeks.
Now there are 200, 000 people who have left the city alone, altogether an estimated 400, 000 at least have left other cities to head to the mountains and the countryside, and hundreds of them are living with almost no protection.
Mr. ZEV YAROSLAVSKY (Supervisor, Los Angeles County): Where we have tried to protect the ridge lines of the mountains from gaudy, ugly and defiling developments where the occupant of the home would have a 360-degree view, but that the rest of the world would have to look at that gaudy building.
We no longer have the wine lakes we remember, the vast butter mountains and other topographical features imposed on different foodstuffs of one sort or another.
Allowing just a bit more inflation out of the bottle would also make it easier for countries to get out from under the mountains of debt they have taken on in recent years (they would be paying the debt off with inflated currencies).
More than 25 wild ponies that are kept on the nearby mountains have also died.
They have such strong ties to the mountains that some refuse to leave their homeland, despite the fighting.
The wooden mountains have been bare for decades without seedlings being replanted.
The government lawyers have subpoenaed mountains of documents and emails, and, not surprisingly, found enough evidence to embarrass Goldman and bring a civil securities charge.
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Civilians in the Nuba Mountains have resorted to hiding in rocky outcrops and caves, and piling stones over makeshift foxholes to take cover from the bombing raids.
Watching some of the new Google videos, I could not help but miss a few of the timeless Siberian towns I have stopped at, and the snow-capped mountains or that steady stream of forest out the window.
In the Ural Mountains, officials have threatened to confiscate children because a family's apartment is sparsely furnished, or the refrigerator is empty, one news site reported.
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.
Your daytime activities aren't limited to slipping and sliding the resort's location in the White Mountains means you can have a blast hiking, biking, horseback riding, or admiring the foliage via the Conway Scenic Railroad.
If the president cannot wield some clout in a conservative state within easy range of the White House, the Republicans have a problem that stretches much farther than the Blue Ridge Mountains.
Almost all the villagers who live in the forested mountains of Oaxaca, the Sierra Norte, have relatives there.
As growers move higher into the mountains, they run into another problem: mountains have tops.
Lots of people even have the private cars needed to drive an hour or two to the mountains near Beijing and some other urban centers.
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