When the French came to Laos, they climbed the high mountains and they saw the cool of the land.
The sunny island with high mountains and deep valleys also provides herbs and aromatic plants, fruit trees and vegetables, wheat and barley.
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.
Achanakmar-Amarkantak, India located at the junction of hill ranges, with topography ranging from high mountains, shallow valleys and plains.
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.
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.
Many superlative vintages come from Colchagua Valley, where the high mountains trap the warm air in and keep cold Pacific air out.
"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 biodiversity is very high with important populations of grouse, golden eagles and mountains hares.
Like Halong Bay on high, karst peaks protrude from the top of rolling mountains and secluded villages are home to a colourful mosaic of ethnic minorities.
High in the mountains they were listening to a chorus of cowbells and looking for wild marmots.
The MCofS's safety adviser said patches of snow that survive into late spring and early summer tended to be hard and high up on sheltered, northern slopes of mountains.
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This is why I have come here: to ride through the remote Tian-Shan (Celestial Mountains) mountain range along ancient routes and through wide high-altitude pastures, known as jailoos, where shepherds have been grazing livestock for centuries.
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The energy, support and expectations surrounding this Buffaloes program are as high as the mountains that surround the western edge of its campus.
MOLA, which works by bouncing beams of light off the planet's surface, has found mountains twice as high as Everest, a crater ten kilometres deep, and huge valleys carved by more water than scientists believed had ever existed on Mars.
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.
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.
The lack of snow and high temperatures made for a dismal 2011-12 ski season for many New England mountains.
The 31-year-old has previous experience of the French mountains and, ater his double Tour misery, he looks a strong bet for a high finish.
There is also plenty of skiing, snowboarding and cross-country skiing to be done elsewhere in the country, where the mountains may not soar as high as the Alps, but assets include cheaper prices, smaller crowds and a less frenetic atmosphere.
From there, Statman said her life was radically altered: On a filming trip, she went with Nelson to the house of a detective who had worked on the Tate case and who had mountains of police reports, photos, "everything imaginable" piled high on a dining room table.
The couple, high-school sweethearts, retired to Arizona in the mid-1990s and built their dream home in the mountains, where they often entertained friends, Mr. Royle said.
This city of seven million people living in various high rise towers at the base of sea-surrounded mountains is gleaming with shiny new buildings, expensive cars, and prestige-brand shopping malls.
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