Sentences with phrase «of granite mountains»

Choose whatever walk suits you, ranging from the easy 10 minute walk to Sleepy Bay to the challenging three hour (return) walk to the summit of Mount Amos in the range of granite mountains known as the Hazards.

Only the Brave will tell the story of the Granite Mountain Hot Shots, the team that took on a wildfire in Yarnell, Arizona that would go on to become the deadliest U.S. wildfire since the 1991 East Bay Hills fire, and the deadliest incident of any kind for United States firefighters since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

All 20 members of the Granite Mountain Hotshots were summoned to fight the Yarnell Hill fire.

It's the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a team dropped in to dig firebreaks and set off controlled burns in the Arizona hills near Prescott.

The patience the film shows in exploring the dynamic of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as an ever - shifting but carefully balanced ecosystem allows for even the most archetypal characters here to feel fleshed out and genuinely human.

Joseph Kosinski's fact - based account of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a group of Arizona firefighters whose de facto battlegrounds included the devastating Yarnell Hill Fire of 2013, is so squarely old - fashioned that it's a little jarring to notice that many of the characters have smartphones.

The story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, a unit of firefighters facing a momentous fire.

Only the Brave, based on the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, is the heroic story of one unit of local firefighters that through hope, determination, sacrifice, and the drive to protect families, communities, and our country become one of the most elite firefighting teams in the nation.

They were all proclaimed heroes, of course, which is almost certainly a word none of the Granite Mountain hotshots would have used to describe themselves.

Soaked in Americana and twangy guitars, Only the Brave provides an uncomplicated, hearty glimpse into the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite firefighting crew that combats the worst forest blazes.

«Only The Brave» (Oct. 20): This one almost feels too sad to bear, sort of like «The Perfect Storm» was back when that film came out, but we'll trust a cast that includes Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges and Miles Teller to find a way to inspire us even as the true - life events of Yarnell Hill Fire that claimed the lives of 19 of the Granite Mountain Hotshots firefighting team, including Seal Beach native Kevin Woyjeck, unfold on screen.

Based on a magazine article whose title — «No Exit: The True Story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots» — gives a clue as to where this is heading, Only the Brave starts out as a standard loser - makes - good story.

The tragic true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots gets a starry and often powerful treatment but suffers from flashes of overly sentimental cliche

Sony Pictures has finally revealed a trailer for a movie called Only the Brave, telling the true story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

Joseph Kosinski trades slick sci - fi for the moving real - life tale of the Granite Mountain Hotshots as they battle wild fires around Arizona.

This throwback filmmaker thriller / drama tells the story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, the elite of the elite of wildfire containment.

The story of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, an elite crew who tackle wildfires across America, is the sort of enthusiastic chest thumper that you would associate with Peter Berg.

Outstanding 2012 @CronkiteNews profile of Granite Mountain Hotshots by @CDRadnovich & @CoryGalvan.

Not exact matches

The granite cliffs, stunning waterfalls, and scenic vistas of Yosemite National Park in California's Sierra Nevada mountains make it one of the most iconic national parks in the world.

Stone Mountain is a bald and rounded mass of granite a mile and a half long and nearly a thousand feet high.

When we reached the top by the shining granite walls of the road cut through the mountain, a huge sunburst illuminated the peak of Mount Brandon, and laid out before us were the dark tarns that held trout and the gleaming thread of the Cloghane River, where the salmon and white trout ran 3,000 feet below.

By late afternoonwe are climbing through the granite peaks of the Absaroka Mountains, approaching — if my $ 2 compass is accurate — a 10,400 - foot rubble heap that bearsthe dubious name Republic Pass.

Executive Director for the NorCal League Vanessa Hauswald elaborated, «We are really excited to get back to Granite Bay for our annual high school mountain bike race; the community here is incredibly supportive of youth cycling and in so many ways it feels like we are coming home when we are at Granite Bay for our event.

In tunnels deep inside a granite mountain at Daya Bay, a nuclear reactor facility some 55 kilometers from Hong Kong, sensitive detectors are hinting at the existence of a new form of neutrino, one of nature's most ghostly and abundant elementary particles.

Nearly a decade ago Hermann Pfefferkorn and Jun Wang — scientists from opposite sides of the globe — came together to go prospecting among the granite slabs of Inner Mongolia's Helan Shan mountain range.

Mount Mantap is a rugged granite mountain with geology that complicates the physics of how seismic waves spread.

For fourdays at a stretch, he'd trap intensively on one - quarter of his grid.The work was so intense that he had to stop and take a break, hikingthe Providence and Granite Mountains; then he'd return to trap anotherquarter.

We started at the Sweeney Granite Mountains Desert Research Center which is one of 39 Natural Reserves in the University of California.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots (one of about 110 elite units in the nation) are based in Prescott, 30 miles northeast of Yarnell, in the higher - altitude pine forests of the Bradshaw Mountains.

The Granite Mountain Hotshots became the first municipal wildfire - fighting crew in US history, and the first half of Only The Brave details what it took for them to achieve that.

«Only the Brave» is the story of the real - life Prescott, Arizona firefighting unit known as the Granite Mountain Hotshots.

Joseph Kosinski's steadily absorbing tribute pulls inspiration from the GQ article by Sean Flynn, dedicating the bulk of its two - hour running time to fleshing out a handful of the 20 - member Granite Mountain Hotshots, a Prescott, Arizona - based squad who faced the ultimate test when they came up against the infamously deadly Yarnell Hill fire in the summer of 2013.

Based on the GQ article «No Exit,» co-writers Ken Nolan and Eric Warren Singer deftly adapt the story of Arizona's Granite Mountain Hotshots, the first group of municipal firefighters to achieve elite «Hotshot» status.

Or to be more accurate, three years since he last made a film given that he spent the better part of the last twelve months making Only the Brave (formerly «Granite Mountain»), the latest «based on a true story» ode to tragic American masculinity (Peter Berg was busy making Deepwater Horizon and Patriot's Day back - to - back).

Twelve minutes later, about the time the Granite Mountain hotshots are nearing the floor of the canyon, the boundary reaches the southern end of the fire.

Teller has firefighting drama Granite Mountain due on 22 September, and is in PTSD drama Thank You For Your Service, which doesn't appear to have a UK release date as of yet.

Josh Brolin stars as the leader of a crew of wildland firefighters called the Granite Mountain Hotshots in «Only the Brave.»

A team of 20 men, wildland firefighters from Arizona proudly answering to the name Granite Mountain Hotshots, are tightly bound together by mutual trust and love of the dangerous job they do.

There's a great moment when the Granite Mountain Hotshots sit on a peak watching a fire burn out on the horizon; as enflamed trees tumble off the side of the mountain they slip through the fog and crash to the ground with a boom, setting off mini mushroom clouds of flame and fire as Mountain Hotshots sit on a peak watching a fire burn out on the horizon; as enflamed trees tumble off the side of the mountain they slip through the fog and crash to the ground with a boom, setting off mini mushroom clouds of flame and fire as mountain they slip through the fog and crash to the ground with a boom, setting off mini mushroom clouds of flame and fire as they do.

There are those who say the sound my country makes at night, the sound I hear when flying, the sound my nation exhales as it sleeps, is the sound of prayer, the sound of Jesus Christ arising from the basalt in the Rockies, splitting hearts of granite as he shakes off chains of time and is reborn, and there are those who claim the sound my nation makes at night is the metallic hiss of money in the forge or the sound of slavery's jism misspent in anger and assimilation, or that the sound my nation makes is the sizzle of cosmetic simulation, the sound the cutting edge of surgical removal makes, the sound of History slipping into coma, cosmic silence, almost total, through which, in my dream of flying, I perceive a hopeful distant note — the sound my country makes — a note so confirming and annunciatory that it seems to bend into itself, bend into its own impending future like an announcing angel comin» round the mountain, bend the way a shadow bends, conforming to the curvature of Earth, wailing gently through the night.

She has also been the recipient an Alex Award from the Young Adult Library Services Association, sponsored by the Margaret Alexander Edwards Trust and Booklist, one of ten books written for adults that have special appeal for young adults; the BookBrowse Diamond Award for novel of the year; a lifetime achievement award for mainstream fiction from the Romance Writers of America; Cosmopolitan magazine's «Fearless Fiction» Award 2007; Waterstone's Author of the Year in the UK, a Vermont Green Mountain Book Award, a NH Granite State Book Award, a Virginia Reader's Choice Award, the Abraham Lincoln Illinois High School Book Award, and a Maryland Black - Eyed Susan Award.

Did You Know: Nearby Stone Mountain is home to the largest exposed granite dome in the U.S., which features carvings of Confederate leaders Stonewall Jackson, Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee.

Vast African plains interspersed with granite kopjes, rivers, the Lebombo Mountains in the east, and a series of forests in the far north, dawn game drives, thatched roof accommodation and the eerie night chatter of hyenas or wild dogs on the prowl make this a firm favourite of any visit to the Limpopo.

The granite found in these locations was formed approximately 100 million years ago and at one point was part of the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range!

To enjoy a more sedate yet impressive experience, you might like to visit one or two of the various waterfalls, where mountain streams gush over cliffs onto granite boulders, making attractive photo opportunities.

Explore a peninsula of pink granite mountains, pure white beaches and azure bays in Freycinet National Park.

Venture into Black Mountain National Park and see the imposing mountain range of black granite boulders, stacked precariously on top of another, defying Mountain National Park and see the imposing mountain range of black granite boulders, stacked precariously on top of another, defying mountain range of black granite boulders, stacked precariously on top of another, defying gravity.

Other highlights include a visit to the Caribbean paradise of Guana Island, which consists of seven white powder - soft sand beaches and acres of tropical forest, mountains and hills and a natural hot tub bath amongst the granite boulders on Virgin Gorda Island.

We ruminated on the use of stone tablets mirroring the silhouettes of the mountains behind them, and staircases carved into massive granite rocks, that lead to nowhere.

Featuring a striking building reminiscent of a mysterious sea creature, Saffire overlooks the aquamarine waters of Great Oyster Bay and the mesmerising pink granite Hazards mountain range on the Freycinet Peninsula.