Mont Blanc is the highest mountain in Western Europe, at nearly 15, 800 feet.
Nagorno-Karabakh, the much-disputed mountain enclave in western Azerbaijan, is full of Christian Armenians.
As I reluctantly trudged my way further up the misty mountain towards the western ridge above Chele La, hundreds of large white Darchor prayer flags fluttered in the fierce winds that buffeted the exposed slopes.
Western Ghats (India) : Older than the Himalaya mountains, the mountain chain of the Western Ghats represents geomorphic features of immense importance with unique biophysical and ecological processes.
The Brecon, Central Beacons and Western Beacons mountain rescue teams all helped in the operation, as did an RAF rescue helicopter from Chivenor in Devon.
Whereas more than 300 Western Lowlands mountain gorillas are in captivity in America, perhaps as few as three of these beautiful but endangered primates are sheltering in zoos on their home continent.
Our western border mountain vista has dramatically altered.
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With 1, 641 stores in the Western, Southwestern, Rocky Mountain, and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States and in western Canada, Safeway is one of the largest food and drug retailers in North America.
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The avalanche on the western side of the mountain, America's highest peak, was first thought to have occurred on Thursday, the parks service said Sunday.
In 2006 Powder Mountain was sold to a consortium, Western American Holdings, which planned to carve it up and fill it up.
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One of the worst has been the Waldo Canyon Fire, which last week roared down a mountain and razed nearly 350 homes in western neighborhoods of Colorado Springs.
Relatively low contamination levels in western Japan could be explained by mountain ranges sheltering those regions from the dispersal of radioactive material, the authors said.
That means the Mountain West, Sun Belt, Conference USA, the Mid-American and Western Athletic conferences must rank in the top 12 of the BCS poll to get the automatic bid.
It markets its refined products primarily in the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountain region, which encompasses eastern Colorado (including Denver), eastern Wyoming and western Nebraska.
The Bakony-Balaton Global Geopark is situated in western Hungary in the north-western part of the Carpathian Basin of central Europe, surrounded by young fold mountain ranges.
Mountain peaks, dank gorges, pristine lakes, tarns and wild moorlands extend triumphantly from the Great Western Tiers in the north to Derwent Bridge on the Lyell Hwy in the south.
Ironically, the Western Cape has probably done best from the end of apartheid, as tourists have flocked to Table Mountain, the winelands and the province's spectacular coastline.
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