Sentences with phrase «of tall mountains»

The village is nestled in the Kicking Horse Valley and is surrounded by incredible scenery and landscapes of tall mountains and beautiful forests.
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He discovered La Doncella's body in 1999 just beneath the summit of Llullaillaco, one of the tallest mountains in South America.
You stand at the base of a tall mountain, gazing up at your New Year's goal glittering at the peak.
The main attraction is Mount Kinabalu, a 4,095 - metre monster of granite that takes the title of the tallest mountain in Malaysia by a long shot.
The Brocken Railway makes its way to the top of the tallest mountain in the stunning Harz Mountain range, The Brocken, on a scenic journey that offers panoramic views of this breathtaking region.
Because it is located at the top of a tall mountain in the Swiss Alps (i.e., Mount Säntis), when it was first set up, it was quite difficult to get to.

Not exact matches

It will have the 151m tall «twisting» Beach and Howe Tower — a residential building complete with stunning views of water and mountains — as its centerpiece.
My strength to stay true to our company's values and pour energy into an amazing team of guides, support staff and clients comes from experiences I've had on the world's tallest mountains.
Mount Everest is the tallest mountain if you measure it from base to peak, but its peak is not the furthest from the center of the earth.
Have you figured out how the volume of the earths water was expanded and then contracted to the level required (about 23 feet taller than the highest mountain), Where all the water came from and what pushed much of it from the earth, what replaced the water when it was forced from the earth?
so id suggest not throwing out your opinions when your book claims the earth is flat and you can see the edges of it when standing on a tall unspecified mountain, it clearly has no scientific merit.
Today, Vulcan stands 56 - feet tall high atop Red Mountain overlooking the city, a symbol of Birmingham's history.
Family responsibilities necessitate our moving to a larger house» one very pleasantly set in a grove of tall tress, but not watched over by our mountain.
This could be the biblical story with the tallest mountain of evidence against it.
The centerpiece of the park, though, is an animatronic, 40 - foot - tall Jesus who «resurrects» from the side of a mountain every hour.
Maybe she would tell of the time, in the mountains with bare feet on the ground, she stood tall and wise and felt every cell in her body smile in assent as she inhaled and exhaled and in one loud second realized, I'm alive!
23 By your messengers you have mocked the Lord, and you have said, «With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains, to the far recesses of Lebanon; I felled its tallest cedars, its choicest cypresses; I entered its farthest retreat, its densest forest.
I wanted to pipe tall mountains of mocha «butter» cream goodness, but the frosting never really kept its shape.
He pointed to no less than five places where four feet tall mountains of the tins were displayed.
Standing tall above the beautiful Arizona desert is Camelback Mountain, and, at the base of it, sits Camelback Road and the heart of the Phoenix food scene.
After visiting the Sangre de Cristo Mountains while my not - so - little brother was in town last week, we decided to spend this week in Telluride, where we're currently nestled within the San Juan Mountains with a hike of one of its tallest checked off of our list.
Cruise the Inside Passage through the world's tallest coastal mountains, fly over Misty Fjords National Monument, hike Mendenhall Glacier and witness the UNESCO - designated grandeur of Glacier Bay known as the «Mountain Kingdom» of North America.
However, even with the highway, much of the Baja still remains isolated and unpopulated, consisting mostly of rugged mountains (up to 10,000 feet tall), along with 800 miles of harsh desert, with few facilities for travelers.
There is pretty much only one reason anybody outside the Mountain West has heard of Allen: He's tall.
Beyond Keahole Point and the modest summit of Mt. Hualalai rises the tallest island mountain, Mauna Kea.
I was thrilled to see some familiar faces like Tall Tara and Crazy Blogging Canuck (Amber)(both whom I met at the Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash back in August of last year), and was glad to put a real live face to a name for peeps like Eat Play Love (Denise), The Casual Perfectionist (JoAnn), Gwen Bell (the organizer of the event), Weebles Wobblog (Lori), and This Mama Cooks (Anne - Marie).
Most of us will probably never climb into a fighter jet or attempt to summit the world's tallest mountain, but there is another danger zone where we dads often find ourselves with our families: the comfort zone.
The Santa Marta Mountains, with the tallest peaks in the country, are completely cut off from the Andes and therefore have a high density of endemics.
The researchers kept the animals in chronically thin air that's similar to the oxygen levels people would experience at the peak of Mont Blanc, the tallest mountain in the Alps, which soars nearly 5000 meters above sea level.
Although cryovolcanoes probably exist on Pluto, and there are hints as well on Titan, this peculiar, 4 - kilometer - tall mountain on Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, is the real thing, say researchers with NASA's Dawn spacecraft in one of six papers published today in Science.
Saturn's third - largest moon, 900 - mile - wide Iapetus, is girded at the equator with a unique ridge of mountains (photo on the left and in detail at right) that reach a height of 6 miles, taller than Mount Everest.
He had to climb the tallest mountains to find native vegetation and the pitiful remnants of its fauna.
NASA's Dawn spacecraft spotted this tall, conical mountain on Ceres from a distance of 915 miles (1,470 kilometers).
But in the latter half of the 20th century, a new technique, called ice - penetrating radar, allowed scientists to see through broad swaths of the ice and revealed entire buried mountain ranges, as tall as 9,000 feet.
With the gravity - mapping mission now over, if all goes according to schedule, the probes» Thelma - and - Louise moment will occur at approximately 5:28 p.m. EST on Monday, 17 December, when the craft slam into a 2 - kilometer - tall mountain in the northern polar regions of the moon, NASA announced in a press conference today.
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.
Then, like toothpaste coming out of a tube, it squirted back southward to emerge at the Himalayas, where it pushed up a chunk of Asia to make the mountains the tallest on the planet.
After studying the map, Bell was stunned by what it revealed: The range of 9,000 - foot - tall mountains, mighty as the Pyrenees, seemed to have sprung up out of nowhere.
«Classification is a tricky problem; there are short trees, tall trees, trees next to each other, next to buildings — all sorts of combinations,» says team member Ramakrishna Nemani, an earth scientist at NASA's Advanced Supercomputer Division in Mountain View, California.
Ever since human beings first began climbing the world's tallest mountains, they have struggled with a basic problem: altitude sickness, caused by lower air pressures which affect the ability of our bodies to take up oxygen.
And the last source, researchers report in an upcoming issue of Geology, was rain falling into the Andes Mountains 100 kilometers east of the Atacama, leaching material like dichromate ions into ground water flowing toward the desert; over millions of years, the mountains grew taller and the change in elevation forced more ground water toward theMountains 100 kilometers east of the Atacama, leaching material like dichromate ions into ground water flowing toward the desert; over millions of years, the mountains grew taller and the change in elevation forced more ground water toward themountains grew taller and the change in elevation forced more ground water toward the surface.
Nearly twice as tall as Mount Everest, Arsia Mons is the third tallest volcano on Mars and one of the largest mountains in the solar system.
The Ellsworth Mountain Range is home to Antarctica's tallest peaks, with the highest - mountain distinction going to Mt. Vinson, which rises to an elevation of 16,860 feet above seMountain Range is home to Antarctica's tallest peaks, with the highest - mountain distinction going to Mt. Vinson, which rises to an elevation of 16,860 feet above semountain distinction going to Mt. Vinson, which rises to an elevation of 16,860 feet above sea level.
The study warns that, given no change in greenhouse gas emissions in the near future, around 99 percent of the glaciers around the world's tallest mountain will melt, drastically changing the surrounding environment.
Getting this far took years of planning and cooperation between international partners at observatories stretching from the tallest mountain in Hawaii to the frozen terrain of the South Pole.
Season 2 of Offshore, «The Sacred Mountain,» took listeners to the summit of Mauna Kea and delved into the ongoing conflict over constructing the world's largest telescope atop Hawaii's tallest mMountain,» took listeners to the summit of Mauna Kea and delved into the ongoing conflict over constructing the world's largest telescope atop Hawaii's tallest mountainmountain.
«Having Norgay and Hillary at the top of that list seems incredibly appropriate to me,» he said, referring to Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, who in 1954 became the first people to climb Mt. Everest, Earth's tallest mountain.
Stand in Tadasana (Mountain Pose), facing one of the long edges of your sticky mat, then step or lightly hop your feet apart anywhere from 3 to 4 1/2 feet (depending on your height: taller people should step wider).
«Tada» which implies «Mountain» represents the strength of a mountain — tall, unrelenting and undMountain» represents the strength of a mountain — tall, unrelenting and undmountaintall, unrelenting and undefeated.
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