In the dark, under a starry sky and a waning moon, Todd and I drove up the side of Kimball Mountain, one of the last large peaks on the westernmost slope of the Rockies.
But the residents of Caleta Chungungo, a mountain village in one of the driest regions of northern Chile, have found a way of doing it.
Julian Carradice from Cumbria was previously team leader of the Wasdale Mountain Rescue Team, one of the busiest in the country.
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Martin McMullan of one of the mountain rescue teams described the scene which greeted them on Tuesday night.
In 2004 Concentric Medical of Mountain View, Calif. unveiled one of the first devices to treat stroke, a kind of corkscrew for the brain.
That's how I found myself on the back of a snowmobile, puttering uphill, under a burning spray from dozens of snow guns, to the top of Easy Street, one of Sugar Mountain's novice runs.
Dale's affinity for loud volumes was also influenced by his mountain lion, one of the 40 exotic pets he kept in an effort to preserve rare species.
As we descended from the mountain in our hired truck--one of only two on the mountain, and therefore obliged to give rides to anyone along the logging road, including several armed soldiers--it occurred to me how few places in today's globalized, networked and wired world are truly remote.
After a few more days of working the phones, my salvation came in the form of Kim Jochl, one of bosses at Sugar Mountain, in Banner Elk, N.
While not all office-based, the mountain of paper is a steep one to descend.
"Red Bird" is Arborea's most accessible and traditional track (it'd fit well on any Gillian Welch CD), while "Black Mountain Road" is one of its more experimental.
The mountain peak collection was one of Google's trickiest mapping projects to photograph, as the adventure team dealt with torrential downpours, mudslides and even a 6.9-magnitute earthquake near Everest in the middle of the night.
The quest to tease useful information from a mountain of evidence, including what one lawmaker called the equivalent of hundreds of hours of video, bore its first fruit with the images of the suspicious person near the marathon's finish line.
Tai Shan, a holy mountain south of Beijing, is one of the country's most popular tourist sites--especially among would-be grandmothers, who trudge to the top, drape red strings over trees and then return home to wait for the grandson this ritual is supposed to guarantee.
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One upshot is that growing mountain of yuan deposits in Hong Kong - because all this wonderful trade in renminbi is essentially one way.
For all of Mountain Lion's iOS-derived goodness, one highlight plenty of folks would love to see in OS X is still missing in action: Siri, the voice-controlled personal assistant.
He scrambled a pair of rescue teams in Narvik, one from the top of the mountain, the other from the bottom.
On a recent Saturday, speaking to a group of bloggers, I talked about the rise, power and influence of the blogosphere in relation to the recent closure of one of our local newspapers, the Rocky Mountain News.
Its enactment also commemorates events from Japanese history and celebrates one of the mountain deities worshipped throughout the country.
Mountain regions represent about one quarter of the Earth's terrestrial surface, and are home to approximately 25% of the global population.
To mark the day he died, they plan to hike one of his mountain trails and have a barbecue with friends.
The Mountain West Conference, judged one of the top two leagues in college basketball all season, fell to 1-3 so far this week.
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The engine, which can be found on the Iron Mountain walking trail, is one of the many structural remains that once formed the complex network of operations in this area.
Room color schemes run from beige and cream to soft greens, delicate blues and a sumptuous red combined with olive in the corner Mont Blanc Suite (the eponymous mountain can be seen from one of the suite's two balconies on a clear day).
While YouTube serves a lot of functions (like watching an unsuspecting mountain biker get leveled by a gazelle), one of those functions is dispersing innovation.
He was also a founding contributor to the Computer History Museum History Center in Boston and then was a member of the Computer History Museum (CHM) when most of the artifacts from Boston were moved to Mountain View and combined with local historical equipment, including one of the original RAMACs.
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Hybl is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of El Pomar Foundation, one of the largest private foundations in the Rocky Mountain west.
Later, the camera settles on a spectacular view of a snow-capped mountain range, a shot that Cobb likely took himself during one of his hunting excursions.
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