Whether on that morning walk or later, Jefferson learned that Mazzei had grown up in a mountain village in Tuscany, Italy.
As tens of thousands of Kabyles poured into a mountain village for his burial, the divisions in Algerian society were never more obvious.
But the residents of Caleta Chungungo, a mountain village in one of the driest regions of northern Chile, have found a way of doing it.
This is the case of Zhou Xunshu, a 35-year-old pro golfer Washburn befriended during his first China Tour assignment, who grew up in a mountain village in the country's impoverished southwest.
This could mean enjoying a scuba diving adventure, buying colourful spices or fresh fish from nearby markets with a chef, exploring a mountain village with a resident family or joining a cultural ambassador to learn the secrets of local traditions and history.
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In her last years Highsmith retreated to a small mountain village near Locarno, Switzerland, where she holed up with her cats.
The former king, Jigme Singye Wangchuck, had announced the end of the absolute monarchy three years earlier before an audience of yak herders in a remote mountain village.
Ice palaces have been a winter feature of Saranac Lake since 1898, fitting for a quaint mountain village where winter temperatures can plunge to minus 30 during cold snaps.
An engineer from Tehran (Behzad Dourani) arrives in a small mountain village in order to record some sort of ritual that depends on the death of an old lady.
At least 43 people died and 25 were reported injured when torrents of water rushed down a mountain on to Andap village in the valley, local news sources reported.
The clouds sporadically open up a bit to reveal a village, a chunk of a mountain, a patch of jungle, before obscuring them from view again, like stage scenery sliding into the wings.
Mountain Village has a feel like Beaver Creek, with plazas and a skating rink and heated sidewalks.
"That little radio in some mountain village was a lifeline for many Afghans during these years of isolation" he said.
In a village a little further down the mountain I come across 77-year-old Masanori Sato, standing on the roof of his house, shovelling snow.
The New York Times reports some Mayan meltdown believers are traveling to a French village called Bugarach, where they think a mountain will keep them safe.
In 2000, the mountain village of Gondo was almost completely devastated by a landslide, killing 13 people.
It is as you leave Machhermo, the final village before Gokyo, that you get a sense of entering mountain royalty.
Or you can try the Snowy Mountain Winter Village that offers two hours of dog sledding and a bunch of activities like snow shoeing and tobogganing.
It is linked to the Town of Telluride by a gondola unique in all of skiing, owned by the community of Mountain Village and operated as public transportation.
The village, which was born and raised Parviz, located in a remote mountain areas of Tajikistan.
The next six miles, between the gorgeous village of Llangrannog and Cwmtydu Beach, cuts into the side of a sloping mountain, presenting an epic cerulean canvas of sea that is a brilliant vantage point for spotting bottlenose dolphins.
The final day begins with a 2km trek north from the village of Arbel to the summit of Mount Arbel, an imposing mountain overlooking Lake Galilee, then heads 5km down to the small closed-off ruins of Migdal (biblical Magdala), thought to be the home of Mary Magdalene.
Beinn Bhreagh (pronounced "ben vreyah, " Gaelic for "beautiful mountain") still stands on a promontory that juts into the Bras d'Or Lakes near the village of Baddeck.
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