Sentences with phrase «precipitous mountain»

Its inaugural exhibition, «See USSR», running until 31st August, showcases some beautiful, art deco - style Intourist posters, such as Alexander Zhitomirsky's iconic «Georgian Military Highway» in which a bright blue, open - topped car rolls merrily along the precipitous mountain road with snowy peaks in the distance.

The rolling to precipitous mountain canyons of white - hued sandstone painted with iron splashes — a land sparsely vegetated and pathless.

Tucked into the side of a precipitous mountain, Amba Estate is a tea operation that shares 10 percent of its revenues with its workers.

The model is not one of gentle, placid growing but of crisis — leaps and falls, perhaps of struggling up a precipitous mountain face.

The valley was formed by an ancient glacier, and is now home to rivers, lakes, tussock flats and beech forests, all surrounded by precipitous mountains.

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Wild sheep and goats are far and few in between in these mountains, and each hunt is a rollercoaster ride of steep cliffs, precipitous falls and desperate lunges.

It's like it's an infinitely precipitous climb up a mountain, and as soon as you have taken a few steps upward, just a brief stumble sets you right back where you started.

It's so difficult that, at least prior to this documentary's footage, it had never been scaled successfully, even by several of the world's best mountain climbers who've tried repeatedly, ultimately failing once they get to the precipitous «Shark's Fin» of the mountain's central of three peaks, where climbing is slow, the harsh climate is freezing, and the places to rest nearly nonexistent.

The narrator and his best friend, Luo, guilty of being the sons of doctors, find themselves in a remote village where, among the peasants of Phoenix mountain, they are made to cart buckets of excrement up and down precipitous winding paths.

Even more amazingly, these performance results Read more about Was the precipitous drop in Green Mountain Coffee Roasters» stock price a wake - up call for coffee stock investors?

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

Marvel at the precipitous gorges, snowcapped summits, and lakes of exquisite blues and greens in this wild mountain wilderness.

Find yourself pleasantly lost as you summit mountains, fly with whales, raise precipitous boardwalks and slide swiftly to new and ever stranger environments.

Overture (1986), on the other hand, consists of ragged, jittery found 16 mm black - and - white archival footage shot between 1899 and 1901 of a train trip through the precipitous passes and tunnels of the Rocky Mountains.

Anne often recounts the many times she was on her hands and knees bagging and labeling fossil specimens in such exotic locations as vineyards in France, precipitous slopes in the Dolomite mountains in Italy and hot, dusty deserts in Turkey.