About 250km (150 miles) to the north, in neighbouring Shanxi province, in Pingdong, a much poorer village, 250 people live along battered dirt roads, and try to grow wheat, corn, soyabeans and winter melon on the dry, rocky mountain land.
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Second option is to slog on another 20 minutes in likely choppy mountain air and land at Rifle, Colo.
The main exception to that has been the events of the summer of 2008, when the government of Indian-administered Kashmir decided to transfer to a Hindu religious trust 100 acres of land on a mountain route leading to an important shrine.
For nearly 20 years, she's worked to protect the land and natural resources of the mountain west.
Nor will he land in Skene Manor on Skene Mountain in upstate New York, named for a Skene who was declared an enemy of the state in the Revolutionary War.
There's also another piece of land on the other side of the mountain, which has been taken also from me.
America is blessed with open space, wilderness areas, mountain vistas, diverse wildlife, austere desert and bountiful farm land.
Hurtling down a mountain on skis is the fastest a human being can travel on land without a mechanical aid.
No. 44, the first man from "the land of a thousand hills" to ever race a mountain bike in the Olympics.
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In Tayto Land you can meet cheetahs and bisons gone Irish and mountain rams for, oh, 50 or 60 euros for a small family.
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He plans to keep 95% of Silver Bow undeveloped and is negotiating to donate conservation easements to groups such as the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, a pro-hunting group, and the Montana Land Reliance, a land trust.
The mountain's rawness and the risk of avalanches have led the federal Bureau of Land Management to permit only 80 guided skiers per day on Silverton's 1, 600 acres. (Vail, which is 5, 300 acres, can see 21, 000 skiers on a busy day.) The slots tend to sell out several months ahead.
Traditionally, Ben Wyvis belonged to the Clan Munro - which was given the land on condition that it could present the king with a snowball from the mountain at midsummer.
The land is heavily covered with mature Douglas firs and maple trees, and rolls across the base of a mountain range on the Olympic Peninsula, with a total onsite elevation change of nearly 600 feet, again huge by golf course standards.
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