From their cottage homestay I took in the imposing mountains I was about to cross.
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Being a native of the north west of Pakistan, I visited Karakoram Mountains along with a French Professor.
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Ms. PAT MULLER(ph) (Retired Court Magistrate, Denver, Colorado): I love the mountains.
Cleared at the checkpoint, with the hot sun setting over the mountains, I stopped at a gas station to buy two Modelo Especial beers to drink in the car.
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Keen to find my own way up into the mountains, I ventured into the city center, walking through the bustling sidewalks, underneath the dirty walls of the fading 19th century buildings, past the garish billboards, and brightly lighted storefront windows, and made my way to the public bus terminal.
As I set off on my next expedition and find myself in harsh climates again, while cycling 15, 000 miles from Alaska to Chile and climbing some of the highest mountains, I will keep in mind the Mountain Rescue teams - who work in these environments, not for fun, but to save lives.
In the mountains however, I was forced to admit my great weakness: vertigo.
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Eventually, I went up to the mountains of Jiangxi for eight months.
"I've climbed most of the mountains, the trophy peaks, in the world, " he told the New York Observer in 2002.
As the bus took us through magnificent mountains and farming valleys, I was worrying about what the border had in store.
"He used to say, 'I want to go somewhere in the mountains, to be all by myself, to escape from everyday life, to be alone, '" Suleimanova said.
Here in the mountains, where every sunrise starts, I'll heal my heart for awhile.
Advent's headquarters is the first of many planned for a massive 25-square-mile development called Mesa del Sol, bounded by I-25 on the west and the Manzano Mountains on the east.
"Bowe, when you get back I want to go to the top of the mountains with you so you can look and see what this city has done for you, " Gunter told a crowd who had gathered in Hailey, Idaho, Wednesday night to show their support for the soldier.
Watching some of the new Google videos, I could not help but miss a few of the timeless Siberian towns I have stopped at, and the snow-capped mountains or that steady stream of forest out the window.
And all along I could hear that voice call, come back to the mountains again.
Later, as night fell, I could hear the faint sound of avalanches on the distant mountains.
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"I had a lot of time to think up in the mountains, " he says.
Yesterday I woke to find snow capping the beautiful Sangre De Cristo mountains that Santa Fe lies beneath.
Up in the mountains, walking between villages enveloped by cloud, I come across a woman watching her flock of wether lambs.
"Little by little, I discovered the potential of technology and how it could really move mountains, " the 19-year-old sophomore said.
Some of my favorite trips during the years between 1996 and 2000 were those I took east of Nashville, in the fall, over the Smokey Mountains.
"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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On one occasion, I visited the front lines in the savagely harsh Salang Pass through the Hindu Kush Mountains.
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 awareness of pace I owe to my teacher has served me whether I am seeking the world's highest summits, sharing my love for the mountains with others or kneeling to look my son, Gus, in the eye when he has a question.
"I had never seen anything like it, " Minor recalls of the blaze in the mountains of Idaho.
"I don't know why otherwise cool and calculating people lose their heads in the mountains, but they do, " says Richard Kahl, editor of Ski Area Management magazine.
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