Sentences with phrase «high mountains which»

Travel deep into the heart of the Southern Alps to visit Mt Cook, New Zealand's highest mountain which towers above the Mt Cook Village where you will be staying the night.

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In high school and college, I spent a lot of time learning to be mentally strong, which can be a good thing, since resilience will wear down mountains given time.

Since there were no high mountains in Isreael from which he could have seen all the Earth's landmasses, Jesus went to the moon.

It shall come to pass in the last days that the mountain on which God dwells will be established as the highest of all mountains.

Again the symbolic nature of the account is obvious: there is no «very high mountain» (Mt 4:8) in the wilderness of Judea; there is no mountain anywhere from which all the kingdoms of the world are visible.

On the basis of information in the Chronicle of Arbel, he paints out that by the year AD 100, the Christian faith spread not only in Arbel in Mesopotamia but also in the villages near by on the mountains, lie concludes: «If, by the beginning of the second century, the Christian faith had already won converts among the inhabitants of the mountain village in Hadiab, then there can be no doubt that the Christian faith had been established before the end of the first century in Edessa and also in Osrhoene, which were on the high way connecting Arbel with Palestine and Syria.»

Acquaintance with this legend formed part of the necessary background to the Gospel account of the transfiguration of Jesus in which it is reported that three of the disciples were led by Jesus up a high mountain where he conversed with Elijah and Moses as they appeared to him.

All the mountains are leveled except the Jerusalem hill which is raised to a still higher elevation.

The book describes how Enoch visited the underworld of Sheol, and after observing the prison for fallen angels in which a great fire blazed, he was led by the angel Raphael to a high mountain.

Even closer to the experience of Jesus is that of Moses who was with the Lord for 40 days and nights during which time he neither ate nor drank but was taken to a high mountain and shown all the land as far as the eye could see (Deut.

Harvey Brooks suggests that living with technology is like climbing a mountain which narrows to a knife - edge as the top is reached.27 Each step takes us higher, but the precipices on either side become steeper.

Once it was when from the summit of a high mountain I looked over a gashed and corrugated landscape extending to a long convex of ocean that ascended to the horizon, and again from the same point when I could see nothing beneath me but a boundless expanse of white cloud, on the blown surface of which a few high peaks, including the one I was on, seemed plunging about as if they were dragging their anchors.

Before that time it read «When on high» which is a reference to the Canaanite kings building their temples on a mountain ledge.

-- If then the solitary man who ascends Mount Moriah, which with its peak rises heaven - high above the plain of Aulis, if he be not a somnambulist who walks securely above the abyss while he who is stationed at the foot of the mountain and is looking on trembles with fear and out of reverence and dread dare not even call to him — if this man is disordered in his mind, if he had made a mistake!

With her ex-husband Ian, she founded Robins Australian Foods with three main product lines: Wild Lime, a high - end line featuring the tiny fruit of the wild lime, a true citrus; Robins Bush Foods, which feature other indigenous plants such as mountain pepper and the bush tomato; and Hot Oz, a line which combines native plants such as lemon myrtle with hot chillis.

High in the Peruvian mountains, where the Inca once built beautiful empires and the air gets thin with a slight chill, a mystically marvelous root vegetable grows called maca, which has been cultivated for thousands of years.

It does seem to be more popular in the mountain and country regions, which is a bit ironic since in the US it is a high priced item made popular by the health food craze.

The Alps aren't necessarily really higher, but you start from much lower than on the high plains in CO — so the mountains are actually a bit taller (from base to summit) which I think adds to their spectacularness

After our picnic, we continued north on Route 108, which unbeknownst to me is the «notch road» and goes through the Smugglers Notch, which is a mountain pass, with an elevation of 2,170 feet (660 meters), separating Mount Mansfield, the highest peak in the Green Mountains, from Spruce Peak and the Sterling Range.

We also visited Ridge Monte Bello, which is nestled high up in the Santa Cruz Mountains.

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So having wiped out a massive part of the support for electoral reform — Clegg has left those who want reform for more high - minded reasons (which is a small constituent remember, most support the system that suits their narrow party interest) with a mountain to climb to rebuild widespread support.

Evidence has also been gathered of the existence of a twilight, which would indicate the presence of a thin high air more rarefied than prevails on our highest mountain peaks.

To get such a high mountain chain in a subduction zone setting is unusual which adds to the importance of trying to figure out when and how it happened.

Current observatories could also help reveal what makes spinning neutron stars called pulsars tick, mapping their starquake - shaken interiors and any centimeters - high «mountains» (which would weigh roughly the mass of a planet because of neutron stars» extreme density) that could pop up on their surfaces.

Africa's glaciers, which occur atop the world's highest tropical mountains, are among the most sensitive components of the world's frozen regions, but the climatic controls that influence their fluctuations are not fully understood.

But also we also have another very important migration that is happening for example in the high peaks on the Andes which is the altitudinal migration for many of the birds that breed and are endemic and are unique to the highlands of those mountains.

According to the study, the regions which reach the highest temperatures at shallower depths, and therefore, have greater geothermal potential and are prone to more detailed studies for their development are Galicia, western Castilla y León, the Sistema Central mountain range, Andalusia and Catalonia.

McKay has visited the peak of Pico de Orizaba a dozen times to study the mountain's tree line, which is the world's highest.

The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves) of these atoms range up to tens of thousands of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.

Due to the topography of the region, though, air pollution may become trapped in the high mountain valleys of the Wasatch Front — especially during temperature inversions, which typically occur in the winter months.

The continent also has high mountains, such as Mount Vinson, which rises almost 4,900 m above sea level.

Because of these characteristics, scientists didn't expect mountains on Titan would tower quite as high as those on Earth, which can rise to more than 5 miles (nearly 9 kilometers) tall.

Bar - headed geese travel from Indian wintering grounds and high Asian breeding grounds in China and Mongolia, which means that they have to cross the Himalayan Mountains en route while flying as high as 7,290 m (23,917 ft).

An ancestor of the present - day rabbit The Paratethys Sea - which was located to the south of Europe and spanned from the northern Alps to the Aral Sea in western Asia - had disappeared, and a lack of high mountains here meant that there were no barriers to hinder this animal's expansion.

Atmospheric changes that caused volcanic eruptions centuries ago, such as the one in Timanfaya or the Tambora volcano (Indonesia)- which hid the sunlight for months -, had an impact on high - mountain centennial forests in the Iberian Peninsula, as stated in an article published in the journal Science of the Total Environment in which the lecturer Emilia Gutiérrez, from the Faculty of Biology of the University of Barcelona, has taken part.

When researchers scaled up and down steep mountain slopes to install video cameras in the trees in which these flowers grow, they caught the plants offering a sugar - packed reward to visiting birds: the bellows organ, a bulbous, brightly colored appendage high in sugar and citric acid, which is attached to the plant's male reproductive organ, or stamen.

Another protein alternative is quinoa (keen - OH - wa), a centuries - old «poor man's» crop grown in the High Andies Mountains of Bolivia and Peru which continues to grow in popularity.

The researchers could tell that seeds had been deposited higher up the mountain than they had been harvested by the ratio of their oxygen isotopes, which changes with altitude.

Climate change research here is in its early stages, and scientists are still teasing out which changes in the high mountains are the result of climate change and which are more likely the result of other human - caused changes, namely, agriculture, ranching and mining.

«Titan might have broad - scale highs and lows, which might have formed some time ago, and the rivers have been eroding into that topography ever since, as opposed to having new mountain ranges popping up all the time, with rivers constantly fighting against them.»

«In the mountains we found healthy vegetation and a great variety of crops, high diversity of invertebrates and greater earthworm biomass, which was estimated at more than 33 grams per square meter,» highlights Huerta Lwanga.

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A great deal of deep - seas biodiversity is concentrated around seamounts which are underwater mountains that rise 1,000 meters or higher from the seabed without breaking the ocean's surface.

NASA is also involved in an international effort called the High Mountain Asia Project, which seeks to understand how climate change is affecting glaciers in the Himalayas and water resources for more than 1 billion people in that region.

The team found the predictions with the new shielded model of PAHs came in at the same value that Simonich measured on the mountain - four times higher than the previous model, which was considerably off the mark.

To better understand the climate's impact on glaciers in the future, a team of researchers in Nepal, France and the Netherlands studied glaciers in the Dudh Kosi basin in the Himalayas, which is home to some of the world's highest mountain peaks, including Mount Everest.

In contrast, super-Earths with a similar concentration but larger absolute amount of radioactive heat sources (i.e., uranium and thorium) than Earth would produce more internal heat, more vigorous mantle convection, and faster plate tectonic action involving thinner plates, which may promote planetary habitability with lower mountain ranges but higher volcanic activity and an atmosphere with a greater relative composition of volcanic and lighter gases (Sasselov and Valencia, Scientific American, August 2010; Valencia and O'Connell, 2009; and Valencia et al, 2007).

Many mountain climbers have climbed Europe's highest peak, Mount Elbrus, which is 5642 m high — but this Russian powerlifter, Andrey Rodichev, has managed to do the unbelievable.

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