The journey across the mountains from the base in Afghanistan to western Pakistan is conducted in darkness and quiet, like a sacred ritual.
Low cloud sweeps across the mountains followed by squally rain.
The following day, however, when she and Hillary went to see Bill speak at a campaign stop, Sara recognized immediately those magnetic attributes that had pulled Hillary across the mountains.
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.
Poncet's peregrinations take him to Egypt, across the Sinai and the mountains of Abyssinia, then again to Versailles and back.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Next leg was from Truckee to Sunriver, across the western ridge of the Sierra Nevada mountains.
"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.
Clustered to the west and south of the Zagros Mountains, which loom across the border in Iran, this is a geological El Dorado.
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.
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'
In the statement, the mountaineering body said climbing was important to Scotland and conditions and routes on Scottish mountains were recognised across the world.
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 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.
Bin Laden and about 300 followers made their escape, presumably following old smuggling trails out of the mountains and across the Pakistani border.
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.
As he proceeds from Moscow to Murmansk, to the Volga, then across the Urals to Turochak on the edge of the Altai mountains and from there to Lake Baikal, Yakutsk and Kamchatka, Mr Montaigne discovers that as the Russian state disintegrates, more and more people are making a living from poaching.
ECONOMIST: Exotic sports: A new angle on Russia��s crisis | The
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.
The mountains are gouged across by the Garganta del Cares, a gorge almost as deep as the Grand Canyon.
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.
He had been working in the fashionable mathematical field of chaos theory an explanation in search of a problem when he came across a suitable problem in the form of mountains of data accumulated by various ocean and atmospheric scientists of his acquaintance.
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.
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.
On Wednesday, 616 people reached the Yida refugee camp in South Sudan - the highest number yet recorded - escaping hunger and conflict across the border in South Kordofan, a bitterly contested region of Sudan better known as the Nuba Mountains.
The storm was expected to drop a similar amount as it moved across Pennsylvania, except for higher elevations like the Laurel Mountains southeast of Pittsburgh, where 6 to 10 inches were forecast though there were no major problems reported.
应用推荐