From the entrance to the cable car at the foot of the mountain to the slopes at the top, security guards and volunteers checked credentials every step of the way.
Catherine's, at the foot of the mountain where Moses is said to have received the Ten Commandments.
One at a time, they dashed in and out of the brush at the foot of Komugi Mountain.
The water turns to spray before it reaches the foot of the mountain and provides moisture to the tropical forest.
Spending nights at the villages of Phortse Tenga (3, 700m), Dole (4, 200m), Machhermo (4, 500m) and Gokyo (4, 800m) offers a comfortable four-day approach to the foot of the mountain from Namche Bazaar, ascending gradually through the thinning air.
At the foot of a black, volcanic mountain I find the Commonwealth team hunched against the gale and wolfing down mouthfuls of some glutinous meal.
Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.
Its first grainy, wide-angle images showed its own left rear wheel parked on the surface of Gale Crater near the equator of Mars, close to the foot of a three-mile-high mountain it aims to explore in months to come.
The rover will head toward Mount Sharp, a 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of where it landed.
Precision in landing was important because NASA chose a relatively tight area for Curiosity's arrival: The Gale Crater, which contains an 18, 000-foot high mountain about 7.5 miles south of the landing site.
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).
Krakow lies at the foot of the Tatras, a continuation of the great Carpathian mountain range that for centuries marked the border of the Habsburg empire.
And in 1965, selling motorbikes for a spell in Moses Lake, Washington, business became a lot more interesting when, fired up with a Wild Turkey or two, he did tricks to draw in the customers: jumping a car, then a car and a 20-foot box of rattlesnakes, then two cars, rattlers and a mountain lion, until a crowd came to watch him.
He was with two other companions Saturday afternoon when an avalanche swept them more than 1, 200 feet down Granite Mountain, a 5, 600-foot peak about 45 miles east of Seattle.
Though Squaw's most obvious attraction is the mountain's awesome 4, 000 acres of skiable terrain and 2, 850-foot vertical drop, the area abounds with activities year-round, including golf, climbing, horseback riding and hiking.
The mountain's 900-foot vertical drop is the largest in the upper Midwest and double that of most others in the ski-crazed Northwoods.
Working my way around this tumor with a ten-millimetre camera on the end of a foot-and-a-half-long wand was like trying to find my way around a mountain with a penlight.
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