During a recent month in Chalten the weather was good enough for Jim and me to venture into the mountains four times and three times it turned foul not long after getting to basecamp.
The home stretch sends racers up an 11-foot hill and then down into the "Dutch mountains, " four moguls just before the finish line.
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The project, located some 3, 700 m (12, 140 feet) above sea level, involves moving the water from four lakes high in the mountains into reservoirs the company would build.
You can take a scenic scheduled charter flight over the back ridge of the Mahale Mountains from Arusha (four hours) with Zantas Air or from Dar es Salaam (six hours) with Safari Airlink.
Jagged silhouettes of mountains emerge from the early fog at all four compass points.
In Phoenix, blowing dust obscured the mountains surrounding the city, and at least four people were injured in a pileup when two semi-trucks jackknifed in a dust storm on I-10 in southern Arizona.
The four hour drive south from Marrakech winds through the Atlas mountains and tiny, dusty Berber villages (although many, surprisingly, not too tiny for an ATM) showered with blowing red sand under a blinding sun.
This will eventually form part of a water control system comprising at least four other dams and pipelines, controlling rainfall in the Lesotho mountains and supplying fresh water to South Africa.
Hamilton was a military engineer who spent four years from 1928 to 1932 building this road through the mountains connecting Erbil to the Iranian border to open up a route through to Tehran.
Beautiful mountains surround the picturesque walled town with colourfully painted Tyrolean houses around four different ski areas around Kitzbuhel.
AZUSA, California (CNN) -- Firefighters began containing a fast-moving 1, 500-acre wildfire Wednesday that resulted in four injuries as it burned out of control in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains.
Without the strength of our Fishbowl family we would have been unable to endure losing our oldest son, Cameron (our CAM Courage Above Mountains foundation is named in his honor) to a rare cancer just four years ago.
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Thefts from ancient Indian ruins, he adds, are a growing business in the Four Corners area, where Utah, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico meet in spectacular mountains.
The Sports Complex is one of the four training sites run by the Olympic Regional Development Authority in New York's Adirondack Mountains and scattered around the town of Lake Placid.
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