Navigating these last few years are as critical as making it through the high mountains before an early snowstorm.
When the French came to Laos, they climbed the high mountains and they saw the cool of the land.
Achanakmar-Amarkantak, India located at the junction of hill ranges, with topography ranging from high mountains, shallow valleys and plains.
Trapped on three sides by high mountains, this warm, moist air forms huge clouds that then discharge electricity in powerful cloud-to-cloud storms.
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The Aspen Pitkin Co. airport is surrounded by high mountains on three sides, so it is in something of a box canyon.
The sunny island with high mountains and deep valleys also provides herbs and aromatic plants, fruit trees and vegetables, wheat and barley.
Many superlative vintages come from Colchagua Valley, where the high mountains trap the warm air in and keep cold Pacific air out.
Once you get there, stunning monasteries carved into high mountains await, as well as some of the tallest and most imposing mountains on earth, the Himalayas.
As one of the most biodiverse places on the planet, supporting jungle, high mountains and coastal desert, Peru calls upon a formidable stash of raw materials to concoct its cuisine.
In a busy year up to 10, 000 people walk up to the base of the mountain, just to look at the high mountains and say they have been there.
But upon arrival in the village of Imlil, the highest of the High Atlas mountains seems to soften.
"I worked as an English teacher in a town in the High Atlas Mountains in Morocco for two years, and quickly grew to love this part of the world, " he said.
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The Ecuadorian Andes are a fiendish proposition for any transport planner: a three-mile high spine of mountains that runs down the centre of the country, unfolding into high plateaus, fissuring into canyons and sheltering mist-shrouded old towns.
The cluster was discovered by the Atacama Cosmology Telescope high in the mountains of Chile.
High in the mountains they were listening to a chorus of cowbells and looking for wild marmots.
To counter this tactic, the army would need to land large numbers of troops high in the mountains.
Frandsen bought ten isolated acres on the edge of a 60-foot cliff, high in the mountains of northern Idaho.
The energy, support and expectations surrounding this Buffaloes program are as high as the mountains that surround the western edge of its campus.
Other former coffee-plantation land, high in the mountains where the soil is rich in volcanic minerals, remains overgrown with weeds and contains barren trees.
Beck snapped pictures of the crude stone shelters that Alpine Club members had begun building high in the mountains the precursors to the helicopter-serviced "huts" you find these days.
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.
They all hail from Bekoji, a town of fewer than 20, 000 people set high in the mountains of the Arsi province, but with a freakish record for track and field success.
The mountains' high altitudes were another obstacle, one that required careful planning.
The attackers had the advantage -- the high ground, the mountains above.
First, they underestimated the strength of General Dostam's one-time ally, Ahmad Shah Masoud, who continues to hold out in the mountains and high passes of the Panjshir Valley, in the east of the country.
High up in the Andes Mountains, at an elevation of around 3, 600m in the well-known Cusco region, communities get together for celebrations involving music, dancing, drinking, eating and brightly coloured costumes.
Mountains are naturally high-energy environments, being formed by the collision of plates of the earth's crust that, at least for 'young' ranges like the Alps, Andes, and Himalayas, are still moving.
The list of Abels was conceived in 1994 by a group of local Tasmanian bushwalkers in a book titled The Abels: A Comprehensive Guide to Tasmania's Mountains over 1100m High: Volume One, edited by Bill Wilkinson.
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