Gordon Green, who organises the event, said the ninth annual world mountain bike bog snorkelling championships had gone well.
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Pinatubo had been dormant for more than four centuries, and in the volcanological world the mountain had become little more than a footnote.
The evolution of Patagonia into a clothing company began in the 1970s, when Chouinard then a world-class mountain climber and a designer of mountaineering equipment started importing durable rugby shirts and corduroy knickers for his climber pals to wear.
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Doble asked Vilane, who was working as a game ranger, why there weren't many world-famous black mountain climbers.
These are factors that impact the nature of the world from the highest mountain peak to the deepest ocean trench.
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Peter Legate, 38, a business manager from Lymington, Hampshire, was attempting to reach the summit of the world's highest mountain, the Foreign Office confirmed.
The world's largest mountain gorilla population, thought to number fewer than 500 animals, is found in a mountainous region known as the Virungas, incorporating Uganda's Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and Virunga National Park.
The eastern boundary of the Global Geopark extends beyond the settlement of Durness and Loch Eriboll to follow the Moine Thrust Zone, an internationally significant geological structure that helped 19th century geologists determine how the world's great mountain ranges were formed.
The world's largest mountain gorilla population, thought to number less than 500 animals, is found in a mountainous region known as the Virungas, incorporating Volcanoes, Uganda's Mgahinga Gorilla National Park, and Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
No trip to the West would be complete without a visit to the stunning 168, 000-hectare World Heritage area of Cradle Mountain-Lake St Clair.
About 200 of the world's 700 known mountain gorillas lived in the park when rebel leader Laurent Nkunda's men took control of the gorilla section last year, Newport said.
Explores some of the world's most remote mountain terrain while continuing Jones' mission to camp deep in the backcountry and on the summits of unridden lines to access nearly vertical spines and wide-open powder fields.
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But the main attraction at Clayoquot is the wilderness itself, and a slate of varied activities include horseback riding, river and ocean kayaking, whale watching, grizzly bear watching, hiking, mountain biking and world-class river, ocean, and lake fishing - some guests come primarily for the angling.
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The Southern Utes had been to Vail before, including in 1999, the year the mountain hosted the Alpine World Ski Championships.
"It is a unique opportunity to have access to biosphere reserves in all the big mountain areas of the world, " says Mr Messerli.
This is the oldest mountain range in the world and for a 100 years, mining these mountains has brought jobs for the people here.
This gesture represented an early ripple before a wave of modernity was allowed to sweep through his secretive mountain kingdom, a world all of its own between China and the northeastern tip of India.
"Essentially where the PGA Tour came down was that they did not think that banning anchoring was in the best interest of golf or the PGA Tour, " the circuit's commissioner Tim Finchem told a press conference at the World Golf Championship event at Dove Mountain.
Today, I designated Fort Ord as a National Monument that will not only protect one of the crown jewels of California's coast a world class destination for hikers, mountain bikers, and outdoor enthusiasts but also honor the heroism and dedication of men and women who served our Nation during the major conflicts of the 20th century.
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What is known is that Summit has no plans to turn Powder Mountain into an alpine Disney World.
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Somewhere in the world, rain is falling on a mountain valley or forest, from where it will flow to people in cities like Tanga, Tanzania or Denver, Colorado.
Ladd, an experienced mountain climber as well as world-class kayaker, stops mid-river to instruct the children how to roll their kayaks into the water, and use another kayak to empty the water and get back into their boat.
Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world.
I'd rather spend the night in the trunk of an Oldsmobile than watch "Mad Men" with a crowd, and I really don't need accompaniment for World Series Game 7s, Tour de France mountain stages or Wimbledon five-setters.
The Karisoke Research Center, operated by the Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International and located in Volcanoes National Park, is the world's most important facility for studying the mountain gorilla.
But the same dramatic Sierra Nevada mountain range that collects some of the world's greatest powder, dries out in the summer, giving day hikers and backpackers access to an unspoiled outdoor experience only miles from the comforts of town.
While the author of the Magic Mountain talked about the complexity of time around World War I, in the 1990s time was compressed here.
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Now, at thirty, I'd found all I needed in the sweet, real world of Cedar Valley, where I lived-the mountain peaks forming a torn-edged horizon, like a castle's crenellated walls, protecting me within a bowl of neatly laid out streets lined with well-established homes and mature trees.
"The Lord is calling me to climb the mountain - prayer is not an isolation from the world, " he said.
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