Sentences with phrase «cliff sides of»

Now listed as a UNESCO Heritage Site, Geirangerfjord has some of the steepest cliff sides of any of the world's fjords and is uninhabited for much of its stretch as a consequence save for the small village of the same name, which clings precariously to the shore edge.

Perched above the sea on the cliff side of Costa Brava, the views from Seascape are absolutely breathtaking.

Located on the cliff side of Anse des Cayes with gorgeous ocean and island views, Caribbean Breeze offers a spacious interior and offers some of the best bang for your buck of all our St. Barts villas.

The Barefoot Beach Villa is a luxury private beach house on the cliff side of La Toc, overlooking the enchanting Caribbean Sea.

Not exact matches

Nick Woodman and I are strapped into the cockpit of a vintage racecar on a winding, narrow road in California's Santa Cruz Mountains, taking cliff - side turns at 60 miles per hour and rocketing up to 100 on the straightaways.

From the book: «For 2,000 years, the people of Igorot Sagada have laid their dead to rest by jamming their bodies into compact wooden coffins and hoisting them up onto brackets driven into the side of a cliff.

If you don't have a fear of heights, you should stay in this transparent pod, one of three suspended on the side of an Andean cliff.

Just like Lemmings simply following their leader, these people race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty; hoping they can swim to the other side.

We hiked all day along the ridge occasionally walking out on the narrow pieces of rock that jutted from the main path — only three feet wide with hundreds of feet of cliff on each side.

A favorite painting by a Navajo friend shows a lone pinion tree growing out of the side of a cliff, its roots anchored in the rock.

Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye he caught site of a beautiful strawberry growing within reach on the side of cliff.

I just spent an incredible week in Italy with my parents and D. Imagine the gorgeous cliff side villages of the Cinque Terre to narrow lanes and canals of Venice.

The next beach on the other side of the cliffs is called Praia do Canico near Alvor.

Amenities include The Links at Terranea, a nine - hole, par three golf course; award - winning 50,000 sq. ft. oceanfront spa and fitness center; four swimming pools and a 140 - foot waterslide; marea luxury boutique; 135,000 sq. ft. of conference and meeting space; and eight dining venues including signature restaurant mar» sel; Nelson's, a cliff - side spot ideal for whale watching; and Asian - inspired bashi.

The question of which side held the moral high ground — the NHL with its demand for a link between revenues and salaries or the NHLPA with its market - based system — would be rendered moot; high ground vanishes immediately when 30 owners and 700 - plus players follow their leaders off a cliff.

We are staked out on a long narrow flat under the cliffs of Pulpit Rock on the north side of Roatàn, a flat the shape and consistency of a giant fingernail clipping.

No, there are not enough pretty pictures to keep you strapped to your seat, unless you're type that reads coffee table books like thrillers, but you are liable to see something incredible if you are willing to invest the time — impossibly old structures standing impossibly, vistas off cliffs just over the side of roads serving as makeshift cycling track with no guardrails.

But fortunately, he caught an amazing lie on the side of a cliff and had to try and take a swing to get back up and on the fairway.

It looked like his chances at contention were gone for good at the sixth, but he caught a decent lie on the side of a cliff and saved a par.

The rangers tried to stop three people from jumping off of cliffs into the water on the north and south sides of the Second Dam.

While attempting to rescue the dog, Bashnagel himself became trapped on the side of the cliff.

Besides the frigid weather, they have to use bush planes that are capable of landing on gravel bars and inflatable boats to access the sites, and often have to repel down the side of a cliff to do the digging.

On the way up, he found sockets chiseled into the back side of the spire and, directly opposite on the cliff face, a series of corresponding holes.

But 32 flint tools discovered in a cliff side during low tide near Pakefield point to humans living in the vicinity of its tidal flats and rivers around 700,000 years ago.

On the far side of the fjord, the captain dropped me and four other hikers off at the base of a long ravine, where a series of animal trails led through a dense fern jungle and up a granite cliff face bisected by a waterfall.

«Those cliffs of volcanic ash are pretty unstable,» said remote sensing specialist and NASA Goddard co-author Dan Slayback of the receding cliffs on the southern side of the island.

Hillis's plan for the final clock, which he reserves the right to change, has it built inside a series of rooms carved into white limestone cliffs, 10,000 feet up the Snake Range's west side.

The pictures, released on 5 September, confirm that Philae lies on its side in the shadow of a cliff, lodged in a crack, with one of its legs in the air.

During this process, the agent might perform actions that may not only be wrong, like a robot running into a wall for example, but catastrophic like a robot running off the side of a cliff.

Just a couple of weeks ago, an amateur fossil hound uncovered the remains of 200 year - old diosaurs, formerly embedded in a sea side cliff.

Besides the frigid weather, they have to use bush planes that are capable of landing on gravel bars and inflatable boats to access the sites and often have to rappel down the side of a cliff to do the digging.

Hike two and a half miles along this rugged path, which hugs the sides of steep cliffs and is downright treacherous in places.

I am currently living in a small apartment on the side of a cliff in a remote village in Guatemala where the nearest vegetable and fruit stand is a 20 minute walk away.

It is set in a spectacular ocean cliff - side location of Koh Samui, Thailand.

This yogic paradise offers an inspiring learning environment, including the only yoga sala to be constructed over an ocean cliff - side, where you can deepen your meditation with the sound of the waves crashing on the rocks.

Many of you guys are also readers of the Art of Manliness; what's more epic that scaling a cliff side using nothing but your own two hands?

It made me think back to where we got engaged in Santorini, at that tiny church built into the side of a cliff overlooking the ocean.

And not just when the camera throws you off a cliff, or when your progress is stalled by another tedious, three - strikes - and - out trivia quiz, or when the belligerent checkpoint system respawns you on the opposite side of the map from your current challenge should you dare to die.

You see, there are also sequences in which cars — with drivers inside — are dropped from a military cargo plane, Paul Walker's Brian O'Connor runs up the side of a bus as it slides over a cliff, and then leaps on the back of a car.

The thematic through line isn't as sturdy (It's a vague exploration of corruption and acting on the edge of society, with a lot of scenes taking place on a cliff - side road), so we're left focusing on the individual worthiness of each story.

Now, he spends his life holed up in his cliff - side mansion and especially in the basement, where he makes fancy new gizmos for and prototypes of his high - tech armor on very little sleep.

In Mission: Impossible - Fallout, Cruise clings on to the side of a helicopter, clings on to the side of a cliff face (and loses his grip and falls off), and drives a car straight into a truck.

A character is kicked over the side of a cliff and falls to her death.

The prehistoric bones and cliff - sides from the Cliff levels of Donkey Kong Country Returns can be found throughout the background and as silhouettes in the foreground, but they are covered in ice and snow.

In fact, the best thing about the film is when it captures what it's like to be on the side of a mountain, a sheer cliff face that really wasn't designed by Mother Nature to be inhabited by humans.

This consists of flying up the side of a building or cliff, ducking behind anything that happens to jut out from its side.

In one scene, two of the Marvel heroes make a heroic attempt to save three individuals from plunging over the side of a cliff.

Presumably the team will be gathering the materials as time goes on, but their plan to build a «massive structure against the side of a big cliff» might prove a little ambitious if they have to take sourcing materials into account.

He's taking over the post at the Janus Rock lighthouse after the former keeper quit by, quote, throwing himself over the side of a cliff.

It was a day of driving with the cruise control engaged, as we enjoyed the view of the majestic vermillion cliffs on the north side of the road to Page, Arizona.