Parked directly on top of the mountain is a vast Ice Age glacier that Jules Verne, who never visited Iceland, neglected to mention in his novel.
"If you stand on top of the mountain, the sun would always just graze around the horizon, " says Detlef Koschney, who worked on the spacecraft's cameras.
The effects of water and ice, too, are likely to be intermittent, and to trail off a bit as the reserves on top of the mountain are used up.
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Similarly, the The Daily Mail, having started on top of the Mountain of Imminent Doom, slid inexorably downwards to the fog of suggestive association by the end of their story.
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On New Year's Eve, the family had gathered at the Sundeck restaurant on top of the mountain in Aspen, fame's playground, waiting for the slopes to clear at the end of the day so they could have the hill to themselves to continue the annual family downhill football game.
He parks the truck on the top of the mountain, just feet away from an old Ute Indian game-tracking trail.
In a recent conference for its 500 top global executives held in Beijing China, Mr. Mahindra extolled the virtues of sitting on the top of a mountain and asking questions as wiseman once did vs simply acting busy during the daily grind.
At the end of the day I am on the side of users and I am somewhat agnostic as to which companies gets to stand on top of the competitive mountain.
If you want to ride one of these stocks embraced by the momentum crowd, just be aware of what awaits you on the other side of the mountain top.
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Let your locks down on the slopes of Okemo Mountain, ranked in the top three by Ski Magazine for snow quality in the east.
Tradition dictated that the journey be split in two, and that we spend part of the night on the mountain before striking out for the top in time for sunrise.
But a good slice of the blame for the housing boom must go to the Howard government which, in effect, slashed the tax rate on capital gains to half the top rate of income tax, luring a mountain of speculative money into property.
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No need to choose which books you want to carry with you, you will always have your entire library at your disposal, on the beach or on top of a mountain.
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He lives on top of a mountain billed as having some of the worst weather in the world, New Hampshire's Mount Washington.
Brian Fitzgerald lives on top of a mountain billed as having some of the worst weather in the world, New Hampshire's Mount Washington.
Placing a seemingly incongruous space-age pod on a mountain top in the middle of the Alps is something Lovegrove has no qualms about doing.
Today, we expect and demand such services whether we are on a mountain top or in the middle of an ocean.
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For the last half century, a twenty-meter high statue called Kartlis Deda, or Mother of Georgia, has stood on a mountain-top overlooking the capital Tbilisi.
APART, perhaps, from tablets of stone dictated by the Almighty on a mountain top, no better way has yet been found to convey a simple message to a vast multitude than broadcast television.
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This is already a worry, for example, on Mount Fansipan, Indochina's highest peak, where uncontrolled tourism is degrading the top of the mountain.
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The town consisted of a couple of hundred houses that seemed to have been airlifted to the wind-battered top of a desolate mountain, which was surrounded on three sides by even higher, more foreboding peaks.
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