The train stops twice en route, at Eigerwand and Eismeer stations, both with phenomenal views across wild mountains and crevassed glacial ice, before cresting Jungfraujoch.
Low cloud sweeps across the mountains followed by squally rain.
Some 24 hours later, after an arduous journey across the mountains, she and her family found temporary sanctuary in the home of an ethnic Albanian man in Tuzi, in the neighboring Yugoslav republic of Montenegro.
Beginning in the Russian capital, trains trundle their way through birch forests across the Ural Mountains to the town of Yekaterinburg.
In the coastal city of Valparaiso, the port has been closed to small vessels, and the main road to Argentina across the Andes mountains has also been shut.
An elevated walkway led to the upper level of the main lodge, a three-story building with floor-to-ceiling windows that afford magnificent and ever-changing views of the pink-hued Hazards mountains across the bay.
The mountains are gouged across by the Garganta del Cares, a gorge almost as deep as the Grand Canyon.
Poncet's peregrinations take him to Egypt, across the Sinai and the mountains of Abyssinia, then again to Versailles and back.
In the statement, the mountaineering body said climbing was important to Scotland and conditions and routes on Scottish mountains were recognised across the world.
In Tajikistan, on the southern fringes of the ex-Soviet Union, 250 shift-workers are slowly bulldozing a 32-kilometre (20-mile) road from Murgab in the Pamir mountains, eastwards across the rock, salt and sand wilderness of no-man's land, towards China.
All Americans should know that one act of kindness extended to a family of a soldier, a sailor, or a Marine, a Coast Guardsman, reverberates across water, over the mountains, and through the deserts, into the heart of the warrior who is standing there alone, thinking as much about his family as his family is thinking about him or her.
Clustered to the west and south of the Zagros Mountains, which loom across the border in Iran, this is a geological El Dorado.
The story is about a mysterious man named Smelty John, who is the only one to notice a certain beauty that wafts across the ocean, over the mountains and though snow-bound fields toward him.
But across their surfaces, dragons writhe through mountains, bamboo leaves flutter in the moonlight and cranes soar through clouds.
In the evenings, chamois (a goat-antelope species native to mountains in Europe) click across the surrounding rocks, and if the weather is clear you get the most unusual of mountain views, peering down onto ships far below on the Atlantic Ocean.
Next leg was from Truckee to Sunriver, across the western ridge of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
Sauntering across endless prairies, with snow-speckled mountains in the distance, was profoundly peaceful, and the old-fashioned physical work remarkably satisfying.
"Obama is winning men and women in Virginia, and is doing well across the state east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, " CNN polling director Keating Holland said.
Two huge hydro-electric power schemes, on Lake Cahora Bassa in Mozambique and in the Lesotho mountains, which will zap electricity across the region, are also being built.
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 12-meter catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
The man overseeing this sea change is Michel Bonnefous, a school chum of Bertarelli's who still climbs mountains with the billionaire and skims across Lake Geneva on his powerful 40-foot catamaran ("It's a mountain of sail, " he says, with a touch of awe).
The inn is set on Lake Wakatipu's northeastern shore, looking out across the water to the 6, 000-foot Humboldt Mountains.
Investigators did a door-to-door sweep of homes, storage sheds and horse stables scattered across the oak-studded hills foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
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.
All this, however, is a completely new experience for the members of this semi-nomadic community of hunters and gatherers who live scattered across the provinces of Narino and Putumayo and in the neighbouring mountains of Ecuador.
And in one of the most controversial stories we came across this week, a Chinese developer is proposing to flatten 700 mountains in the Lanzhou area in order to build a new city.
Up in the mountains, walking between villages enveloped by cloud, I come across a woman watching her flock of wether lambs.
In the evening, the setting is magical as the sun sets over the Congo Mountains in the distance, and tiny lights from fishing boats flicker across the lake.
The effects of retreating glaciers on mountains and in polar regions, deforestation in South America and forest fires across sub-Saharan Africa are also shown in the atlas.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Changing planet revealed in atlas
Paddle across Lake Constance from Lindau, an impossibly pretty town that is watched over by blue mountains.
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