Sentences with phrase «of tall peaks»

With a dramatic landscape comprising vast networks of tall peaks, green craters and coastal plains, Sao Jorge offers the ideal scenery for hiking holidays.

The region's interior is home to the island's self - proclaimed answer to the Alps, the Cordillera Central mountain range, which features three of the tallest peaks in the Greater Antilles.

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Kenna's ability to get local businesses to buy ad space in his high school's literary magazine and his ability to get some of Hollywood's hottest celebrities to climb the tallest peak in Africa come from the same part of Kenna's personality: his ability to talk to and connect with almost anybody.

At 6:30 a.m. local time, he made it to the top of the earth's tallest peak, without the use of supplemental oxygen, a rare feat.

A shorter version of this article appears in the June 1, 2016 issue of Fortune with the headline «How to Climb the World's Tallest Peak With 5 Million People Watching.»

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.

By the fall of 1929, the stock market peaked and then plunged, financially - ruining many stock investors (some of whom jumped out of tall city buildings to their deaths).

We braved Pyramid's boulders, Barnard's clinkers, apogees of our climbs in the Wind Rivers, then turned our backs forever on those summits, Gannet, the tallest peak in all Wyoming, The Highline Trail cleavered between the Temples.

Tall peaks of toasted marshmallow fluff hide the layers of coconut pastry cream and dark chocolate ganache that fill the homemade graham cracker crust of this decadent tart.

Night comes down, the strong land - breeze rushes seaward from the Peaks singing a mournful dirge among the treetops; the fitful glare of the fire throws weird shadows among the tall trees, eclipsing the twinkle of the firefly that flits among the leaves; and all is silence and slumber, save when a gaunt figure steals out of the hut, its lean proportions doubly grotesque in the uncertain firelight, to watch the progress of the grilling of the prized meat.

On Aug. 16, Mark Waggoner, the team's vice president of finance, woke up before dawn and toted the chalice to the top of 14,433 - foot Mount Elbert, the tallest peak in Colorado.

The X Games have built their version of the Mega Ramp, a towering peak that rises to 89 feet at the tallest of three drop - ins.

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.

All of the world's highest ranges have strong underlying crust, but until now it wasn't clear whether the world's tallest peaks were dominated by strong uplift or minimal erosion.

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.

He was referring to the magnitude 6.9 temblor that struck Mount Borah, Idaho's tallest peak, killing two children in Challis and damaging hundreds of homes and businesses.

Titan's tallest peak is 10,948 feet (3,337 meters) high and is found within a trio of mountainous ridges called the Mithrim Montes.

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 sea level.

Each fluorine atom has so much electronic charge that you get tall peaks and deep valleys in between them, compared to the smooth plane of regular graphene.

Both Reeves and Park were over 6 feet tall and extremely genetically gifted for bodybuilding, yet at their peaks they carried «only» roughly 35 and 38 pounds more muscle, respectively, than an average untrained man of their heights and bone structures.

You stand at the base of a tall mountain, gazing up at your New Year's goal glittering at the peak.

The town is surrounded by over 700,000 acres of protected White Mountain National Forest, which includes the tallest peak in the northeast — Mt. Washington at 6,288 ft. I like to explore towns without an itinerary.

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The series throws in a tall man straight out of «Twin Peaks,» a psychopath who smells of lavender and jasmine.

Unable to bring himself to climb again, Peter later feels compelled to take up the challenge again when his sister becomes trapped close to the top of K2, the world's 2nd tallest and perhaps most dangerous peak.

Jason Clarke, sporting his native Aussie accent (not seen other Hollywood Blockbusters such as Zero Dark Thirty or Dawn of Planet of the Apes) accompanies a great cast, including Jake Gyllenhaal, John Hawkes, Michael Kelley, Josh Brolin and Sam Worthington up the side of the worlds tallest peak, while their wives, most prominently Keira Knightley (also, possibly Emily Watson and Robin Wright who are also in the cast) hold their breath and cry on the other end of a telephone.

Everest Rated PG - 13 for intense peril and disturbing images Rotten Tomatoes Score: 72 % Available on DVD, Blu - ray and Blu - ray 3D This underrated adventure tells the true story of a group of mountain climbers who try to conquer the tallest peak in the world under the worst conditions they could imagine and unspeakable tragedy.

They jostle and elbow each other and seem not to notice the view: a panorama of the high Himalayas, stretching from Tibet in the east to the great icy mass of Kanchenjunga, the world's third tallest peak, in the west.

In the wake of that brief initial — dare we say — turbo lag, however, oomph builds up more rapidly and climbs to a taller peak.

The 453 - hp peak is less than Ferrari's mid-mounted V - 8s and the redline drops from 8500 to 8000 rpm, but the California's torque curve is substantially broader and taller, with 358 lb - ft of maximum twist available at 5000 rpm.

Also known as Ceaușescu's Folly, it was built as a strategic military route, the 90 km of twists and turns run north to south across the tallest sections of the Southern Carpathians, between the highest peak in the country, Moldoveanu, and the second highest, Negoiu.

Peak torque of 530Nm arrives at a pretty high 4250rpm, but this engine still doesn't mind digging out by its boot straps in a tall gear.

Spectacular underwater photography shows octopuses «standing» tall and stately on their tentacles, while others lie coiled with their skin drawn up into peaks to mimic coral or displaying a range of colors and patterns (purple and gold, stripes and spots) that they can conjure in one - tenth of a second.

By the time the ash dumps were leveled in the late 1930s (and eventually recycled to form the Long Island Expressway), the mounds of ash were nearly a hundred feet tall in places; the highest peak was locally given the ironic name Mount Corona....

On top of that, the net impact of the increasingly frictionless online market for text, the echo chamber of net - based media and the ever more rapid turnover of hotness means that the demand for hot things is more squished than ever into a taller, narrower peak.

Determined to claim this latest innovation for RCA, Sarnoff immediately placed the company's new experimental laboratories atop the Empire State Building at Armstrong's disposal — in effect putting Armstrong at the peak of the world's tallest broadcasting mast.

Traveling from Nepal I flew by 4 of the 5 world's tallest peaks, including Mount Everest.

Embark on a private excursion to the French Alpine village of Chamonix, located at the foot of Western Europe's tallest peak, Mont Blanc.

As well as being the Harz's tallest peak, the Brocken Mountain is the host of Germany's highest narrow - gauge railway station.

Haleakala National Park is best known for being the world's largest dormant volcano and, at over 10,000 feet above sea level, the tallest peak on Maui where you can watch a fantastic sunrise, view unique wildlife, and have an amazingly vivid stargazing experience; However, the park encompasses more than 30,000 acres of public land, stretching from the summit down to the coast where lush natural beauty, waterfalls, and rich Hawaiian culture await in an area called Kipahulu.

Driving into the Drakensberg just the day before and seeing Southern Africa's highest escarpment rise up in sheer cliff's before us was jaw - droppingly beautiful and filled us with a sense of wonder mixed with a tinge of anxiety for we knew that one of the things we came here to achieve was summiting at least one of these impossibly tall peaks...

In the far south - east of Victoria stay in the pretty waterside town of Mallacoota or at Point Hicks Lighthouse, the tallest in Australia, so you can explore some of Croajingolong National Park's white sandy beaches, rocky headlands, granite peaks, rambling heathland, lush rainforests and towering eucalyptus.

Haleakala National Park is best known for being the world's largest dormant volcano and, at over 10,000 feet above sea level, the tallest peak on Maui where you can watch a fantastic sunrise, view unique wildlife, and have an amazingly vivid stargazing experience; However, the park encompasses more than 30,000 acres of public land, stretching from the summit down to...

The Gothic church is stunning both outside and inside, with its intense peaked roof and tall spire drawing visitors in to witness the wealth of art and architectural treasures within its walls.

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Devils Peak (or Mount Diablo) at 2,429 feet (740 m) is the tallest peak on the Channel Islands of CaliforPeak (or Mount Diablo) at 2,429 feet (740 m) is the tallest peak on the Channel Islands of Califorpeak on the Channel Islands of California.

Then you will discover that truly nothing says «winter wonderland» better than the snow - dusted fairytale views of New Zealand's tallest peak.

Over the greater part of a year, we saw SO MUCH: mist - shrouded fjords, penguins & sea lions, the country's tallest peak, & steaming volcanic landscapes.

When you think about New Zealand and the amazing scenery it's known for, you're probably thinking of two things: the rolling, grassy vistas that were popularized in movies like The Lord of the Rings, and tall, steep peaks, shadowed by mist, rising above calm waters below.

The Hajar Mountains forge across the north of the country, and Jebel Shams (3,028 m), its tallest peak, shows o ff the range at its eye - popping best.