Sentences with phrase «face of a mountain»

Understand geology while climbing the rock face of a mountain.

In what looks like the cold open of a James Bond movie, a head - mounted GoPro camera captures the Frenchman and his cohort as they narrowly escapes a cascade of alpine snow by skiing right off the sheer face of a mountain — with parachutes at the ready.

Likened by visitors to Melbourne's Great Ocean Road, Chapman's Peak is not only an engineering feat but an incredible road hewn into the near - vertical face of the mountain that lies between Hout Bay and Noordhoek in Cape Town.

We spent about an hour and a half climbing up the rocky face of a mountain in the Urabamba River Valley.

From here the Devil's Nose Train makes its decent down the precipitous face of the mountain.

We will then descend to Pampa Cahuna (4,210 m.), where we will camp at the base of Salkantay, enjoying the view of the other beautiful face of this mountain.

The path takes you to a view of one of the Inca's many marvelous civil engineer mountain projects — a path carved out of a sheer, granite face of the mountain, passable only by a wooden log that spans the gap in the path.

In Wildflowers, 2017, Berrio created her own mythos in response to present - day politics with a train emerging from the forested face of a mountain ruled over by the Incan god Urcuchillay, protector of animals.

Oh, and the one that's paved the way for all of that is the waste elimination effort; the first face of the mountain.

The gradual steps have to be virtually omnipresent; a few plausible sections of staircase here and there up the face of the mountain are not enough.

Joeseph, Your mockery is in the face of mountains of successful science.

Provocatively, he proposes that the earthquake that brought the face of the mountain down on top of the chamber may have occurred in the 11th century B.C., prompting the Egyptians to retreat from Nubia.

The slow, «Aguirre, the Wrath of God» super-zoom on the face of a mountain, and the tiny trail of white ants — er, sheep — descending it — «Sweetgrass» 3.

Because the3school sits on a hillside that faces west, the wind whisks down the face of the mountain on the opposite side, across the valley floor, and right smack into it.

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Only a mad woman drags three small dogs all over the face of a mountain looking for a film canister.

The steep drive up the face of the mountain is not for the faint of heart, but the rewarding views of downtown Hobart and surrounds are worth every anxious moment!

Io is one of the wettest spots on earth so it's no wonder through the years rain has etched the face of these mountains making for some wonderful wrinkles and valleys.

The way the Incas built these structures directly into the face of a mountain peak, belies a civil engineering project that is truly one of the most magnificent anywhere.

A large part of the climb's difficulty is psychological — the idea that one is relatively exposed on the face of a mountain high above the valley below.

All of a sudden, falling off a cliff would be a fatal mistake, and the faces of mountains — or even six - foot boulders — had become insurmountable obstacles.

The trailer shows Lara on the face of a mountain, clearly on the hunt for a hidden treasure cache.

Zz «Rot Portal, Zeke's Herald and Face of the Mountain are now properly searchable by typing «Active» in the item shop

Wario may have been left out of the Nintendo 64's premiere title, Super Mario 64 (and he wasn't alone — just ask Luigi), but he got the last laugh when players discovered that launching a rocket at Mario's face in a Mt. Rushmore - like setting would turn the face of the mountain into Wario's wicked visage.

The mottled, gray - and - white, Styrofoam bricks seem almost made of stone, and it is possible to momentarily believe we are instead before the face of a mountain watching water cascade from its craggy surface.

Kidspace explores what it takes to be courageous and persevere in the face of mountain - sized obstacles.

But then again, some folk will believe anything to maintain their identities, even in the face of a mountain of evidence...

Warmer ocean water made Harvey bigger and dump more rain according to Earth's Future, which flies in the face of a mountain of other studies backing the «consensus» on extreme storms.