In the Bolivian Andes, ice-blue glaciers crown amphitheatres of peaks, llamas graze quietly in the afternoon sun and the evening light fades into frigid mountain nights.

BBC: In Bolivia, awe-inspiring scenes at every turn

Also featuring on the card is 2002 Commonwealth Games champion Jamie Arthur, Pontypool welterweight Tony Doherty, Mountain Ash light-heavyweight Nathan King, Abercynon welterweight Taz Jones and Rhondda Valley light-welterweight Barrie Jones, who makes his professional debut.

BBC: New opponent for Macca

Playing in 102 degrees Fahrenheit with high humidity at Stone Mountain, Agassi made light of the conditions to dispatch the Spaniard -- a two-time French Open champion -- in straight sets.

CNN: Golden moments: Agassi and Graf relive Olympic glory

Considered the world's most advanced sun-powered plane, the Solar Impulse took off from Moffett Field in Mountain View at first light for a two-hour practice run in advance of a planned multi-city, cross-country tour.

WSJ: Sun-powered plane completes California test flight

From there, workers are laying a steep highway and light rail for 30 miles up a valley though mountain tunnels to the ski venues.

WSJ: Social Media

Using Keck I, a telescope on a mountain-top in Hawaii, the physicists analysed light emanating from very bright but distant galaxies called quasars.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

The snow comes across the Great Salt Lake Desert, hits the Wasatch mountain range and gets pushed up and turned into light, but consistent powdery snow.

BBC: Living in: Ski resort towns

He started with the small quatrefoil lights of the Holy Spirit and the crucifixion, proceeding down through the main panels of Christ and his followers on the mountain, with all the way the white shaft of God's transfiguring light growing broader through the fire-and-storm colours of the glass.

ECONOMIST: Michael Lassen

Her bed is under a mountain of stuffed animals, which all turn out to be frogs: bright green, light green, Day-Glo green, some with stuffed flies attached to their tongues.

NEWYORKER: Ask Me If I Care