Mr Harper, who leaves his wife Alison, is thought to have plunged through an overhang of snow on the mountain.
Last month, Daniel Maddox, 41, from Clackmannanshire, died in an avalanche while off-piste skiing near the Glencoe Mountain snow sports centre.
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There was around 3in of fresh snow at CairnGorm Mountain overnight.
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.
While Brownlee had no qualms about heading out in the snow on his mountain bike, he and several team-mates also decamped to the Canary Islands for warm-weather training.
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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.
Guests traverse sharp ridges, cross a suspension bridge of dizzying heights and scramble over the final summit, all the while taking in the snow-capped mountain scenery and watching the occasional eagle fly overhead.
His was the eighth administration to go in ten years of Nepali democracy, and showed once again that the fall of governments is as wearily predictable, and nearly as frequent, as a fall of snow in this mountain country.
My train is chugging up the snow-carpeted mountain to the Alpine resort of Davos, once a refuge for consumptives and now, at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting, home-from-home for the world's more conspicuous consumers (bankers, hedge fund managers, private-equity stars, inter alia).
The 11-minute ride is well worth it for the snow-capped mountain views (from both the lift and the restaurant) and the comfort food brunch- and lunch-only menu, which includes a wild Pacific salmon sampler, prepared tartare, smoked and candied, and eggs Benedict on toasted brioche topped with avocado hollandaise.
They were found dead Saturday after being buried in snow on a high mountain pass in Colorado's White River National Forest, officials from the Clear Creek County Sheriff's Office said.
Next week, if all goes according to plan, a small mountain of snow will be melted, repeatedly sterilised and then injected in a high-pressure stream of near-boiling water to clear a bore-hole through the two miles of the ice-sheet.
But until the snow melts in the high mountain passes, India will not know if this is a lasting trend.
In Powys, there were hazardous driving conditions due to snow on the A4059 Penderyn mountain road between the A470 (Nant-ddu) and Lamb Road (Penderyn).
Coping with the warmer conditions has been a challenge and even the now familiar method of covering over the mountain pastures with snow cannons has been difficult.
Their bodies were located, buried in the snow, thanks to a special mountain beacon that each had been carrying.
She is the person up in Juneau, Alaska who's planning to ride 350 miles on a mountain bike through the snow on the same trail that's used by the sled dogs.
With a flip of the traction-control switch and a depression of the accelerator, the needle red-lined on the rpm gauge and the car sprang out of the snow with the alacrity of a mountain goat.
Among Germany's lower mountain ranges, the Bavarian Forest has the most reliable snow levels, with plenty of good downhill action on the Grosser Arber mountain.
The snow comes across the Great Salt Lake Desert, hits the Wasatch mountain range and gets pushed up and turned into light, but consistent powdery snow.
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It takes seven or eight hours and strong legs to hike the whole crossing, past ice-blue crater lakes, over snow-covered ridges and through windswept mountain deserts, where totara trees cling to the soft black volcanic sand.
Five of them were swept down the mountain and engulfed by ice and snow.
Waterfalls and fjords carve dramatic shapes along the shore, the Chugach mountain range studding the horizon with snow-covered peaks.
Roman emperors are supposed to have sent slaves to mountain tops to bring back fresh snow which was then flavoured and served as an early form of ice-cream.
They must hope that the snow-storms on the far side of the mountain will not trigger an avalanche.
According to a department spokesman, Benn-i-pott Road, from Brandywell Cottage to the Mountain Road remains impassable due to "large snow drifts" .
About a dozen mountain roads have been closed because of the snow.
From a distance the pale scree slopes on the mountain-side look like barren fields of snow, but get up close and you'll be amazed by the diversity of wildlife that thrives on this reserve.
Meanwhile, wardens and estate workers from Snowdonia National Park say they will help bury around 40 Carneddau mountain ponies, which have died in the snow while grazing on the slopes on the Aber and Llanfairfechan mountains.
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