Waterfalls skid down from the mountains, and far below, the Dudh Kosi wriggles its way through inaccessible gorges.
The breathtaking shark-tooth vista of the Wasatch mountains stretching as far as the eye can see is a reminder that the Salt Lake region is a proper winter wonderland, half an hour's drive from many of the best ski resorts in the world.
As we consider the road that unfolds before us, we remember with humble gratitude those brave Americans who, at this very hour, patrol far-off deserts and distant mountains.
Since an amnesty coaxed some 25, 000 armed Islamists down from the mountains, Algeria has become a far gentler place.
The bigger risk to Facebook is that growing concern over online privacy translates into a wave of legislation around the world that makes it far harder for the company to exploit the mountains of data it is collecting.
The Victoria Glacier hangs at the far end, while Mt Temple and the surrounding mountains paint a natural picture that could not have been engineered to be more aesthetically pleasing.
It involved moving mountains and eradicating disease and inventing and constructing by far the hugest locks and lock gates ever conceived at the time and even a 1914 General Electric computer system to run it all.
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The Blue Mountains are a languid work in progress that is, so far, 150 million years in the making.
" But even as she develops a new life, she dreams of going away, far from Japan--to Australia, perhaps, "because there are no mountains there.
The tranquility of the palace grounds are a great contrast to much of the rest of the city -- not far away original parts of old Seoul's city walls can still be seen in mountains to the north.
Hardly more than a handful of individuals, really, despite the mountains of evidence collected by the feds, have got into any kind of serious trouble and, as far as I know, none have had to pay much of their bonuses back.
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