"If you ban motorbikes then you'd have to ban walkers too because they also damage and erode the mountain paths, " he added.

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Corbi has a contract with a local helicopter company that will help his family escape if the mountain roads are cut off by damage, fire, or smoke.

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He also denied that he had driven on the rail tracks of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, causing thousands of pounds worth of damage.

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Repairs to the Isle of Man's Mountain circuit are on target for TT festival races, despite considerable weather damage, says the course inspector.

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This sounds bizarre, but four years of congressional hearings produced a mountain of evidence showing that women suffer large economic as well as other damage from rape and violence.

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