The right piece can rejuvenate a stale pursuit or, in the best cases, it can elevate our own game like the way a lighter bike frame can get us up the mountain or a better-shaped pair of skis can get us down it.
The devastating Niigata-Chuetsu-Oki Earthquake of July 16, 2007 caused all units at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Station to be shut down, and left us with a mountain of challenges in maintaining stable supply of electricity, making ends meets, and addressing environmental impacts.
The trail along the mountain ridge led us past an extraordinary white rock that jutted out from the hillside, looking like a huge, triangular, diving platform.
We have 1000s of people working for us here, the city, Mountain View, Palo Alto.
To keep his momentum going through all these interruptions, Winchester gets a bit breathless and repetitive with his foreshadowing, reminding us again and again that the mountain eventually will blow itself to smithereens.
And we can't rest until we restore the fiscal discipline that will keep us from leaving our children with a mountain of debt.
And again on Monday we had bombers flying above us when we were stuck on a mountain road that we couldn't get through and again we were aware that we were a sitting target.
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It was great hearing live versions of tracks from the recent Mountain Meadows, and band even treated us to a couple of older tracks.
From the 1960s until the 1980s, the Mountain Pass mine in California made the US the world leader in rare earth production, but it was later closed, largely due to competition with the elements imported from China.
"The government liaison officers of all the expeditions gathered at the mountain decided to overlook this requirement and allowed us to climb, " said Sherchan.
Every few kilometres the landscape became more rugged, more dramatic and soon I was caught up in the beauty, my horse carrying us almost effortlessly along the narrow tracks and through clear mountain rivers.
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Weiszbrod drives us slowly up the switchbacks of 9, 000-foot Kimball Mountain under a starry sky and a waning moon that is just past full, a bright thumb with a dirty fingernail.
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We don't usually think of "Brokeback Mountain" director Ang Lee as an effects filmmaker, but he gave us the romantic swordplay above swaying bamboo forests in "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and, less happily, "Hulk" bouncing across the desert like a rubber ball.
Each of us was fitted with a headlamp that illuminated small patches of rock as we scrambled up the mountain.
But instead of crossing vast mountain ranges and deadly deserts, we must traverse the invisible social boundaries that surround us.
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