The revolving car provides 360-degree views as you ascend the mesmerising 60-million-year-old mountain.
When I was 19, I learned something called the "rest step" from an old mountain climber named Paul Petzoldt.
"He knew he wouldn't last forever, he did his best to carry the old mountain sounds to this generation, " he added.
Holloway, an 18-year-old graduate of Mountain Brook High School near Birmingham, Alabama, disappeared in May 2005 while on a class trip to Aruba.
Alexander Haddad, a 66-year-old resident of the mountain hamlet of Maalula, is concerned about the fate of his ancient Christian community, but he takes the long view.
It certainly looks the part: ringed by ramparts and riddled with echoing halls and secret passageways, it seems the ideal place for a thousand-year old strigoi to have made his mountain lair.
At an old Soviet army base, tucked along mountain foothills here, American Marines, like Staff Sergeant Roy Brady, Jr.
Here and there, amid mountains dubbed by National Geographic The Lost Sierra, you still can find old cables that hauled mining buckets up the mountain and that today's longboarders believe doubled as the world's first ski lift.
He parks the truck on the top of the mountain, just feet away from an old Ute Indian game-tracking trail.
In a village a little further down the mountain I come across 77-year-old Masanori Sato, standing on the roof of his house, shovelling snow.
But the end result, devotees say, is worth it: nine spacious suites with heated floors and high ceilings and verdant 150-year-old vineyards surrounded by a view of snow-capped mountain peaks.
Then a few years ago, Tina came home with an old slide projector and a box of slides labeled "Mountain Trip to Japan, 1959" that she'd picked up at estate sales.
But when the victim was 17 years old in 1983, the priest took the youngster to a mountain retreat near Big Bear Lake in California, and when they took a break by a stream, the priest "gave me a hug and kissed me as if I were a woman, " the victim wrote.
There was no trail that the young man could see, but they were working up and around the face of the mountain and now they crossed a small stream and the old man went steadily on ahead up the edge of the rocky stream bed.
The 40-year-old defendant, of Cheltenham, denies driving a Vauxhall Frontera up the mountain twice in 2011.
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And as happens to fashionable places, some erstwhile weaknesses now seem strengths (flat, ugly countryside makes it easier for Dallas-Fort Worth to expand than mountain-and-sea-locked LA), while old conservative stereotypes are being questioned: two leading contenders to be Houston's next mayor are a black man and a white lesbian.
At Google 's holiday party, some employees dressed to the nines while others wore whatever they had on at work that day to enjoy an evening of food, music and playing old-school videogames inside a music arena next to the company's Mountain View, Calif.
At Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) holiday party, some employees dressed to the nines while others wore whatever they had on at work that day to enjoy an evening of food, music and playing old-school videogames inside a music arena next to the company's Mountain View, Calif.
The attention caused by Everest's trash problem is a step in the right direction, said 31-year-old Suman Thapa, who started working as a porter at 17, but the mountain has a long way to go.
It was hard not to be impressed by Mr. Jackson: his forthright manner, his restless intellect, his towering stature (put to good use in the old Kendall-Jackson ads, in which he was invariably photographed in front of a mountain one that he owned, of course).
This is the case of Zhou Xunshu, a 35-year-old pro golfer Washburn befriended during his first China Tour assignment, who grew up in a mountain village in the country's impoverished southwest.
Issam - a 50-year-old owner of a large business - sends his wife to stock up on tinned food for their mountain house in fear of a possible war.
An engineer from Tehran (Behzad Dourani) arrives in a small mountain village in order to record some sort of ritual that depends on the death of an old lady.
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