Sentences with phrase «steep sides of the valley»

Hundreds of feet up on the steep sides of the valley, like a dirty bathtub ring, a rim of rubble — a moraine — marks the highest level reached by the ice.

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My workshop is squeezed in between a river and a canal, and the sense of being surrounded by water, rocky steep - sided valleys and open moorland is impossible to ignore — it's these natural textures, subtle hues and rugged lines that emerge in my jewellery.

The sense of being surrounded by water, rocky steep - sided valleys and open moorland is impossible to ignore — it's these natural textures, subtle hues and rugged lines that emerge in my jewellery.

We stopped just a few times to admire the surroundings: the valley behind us that faded in and out of view with the clouds that passed over it, the needle - sharp ridges on each side that were too steep even for snow to stick, the thick glacier sitting just a few hundred feet to our right.

Dating back to the 15th or 16th century this was the last refuge of the Incas and sits high on the Quriwayrachina Mountain with steep valleys on all sides.

Next day we reach Solcava after an easy climb through a valley, riding along the Savinja with sometimes steep rock walls on the other side of the road.

From this steep talus slope beneath the sheer face of Cerro Yanaorco, immense red granite building stones were carved onsite and then skidded down to the valley floor, across the river, and then up to the sun temple site on the far side of the valley.

Its an appropriate title for this enchanting four bedroom retreat, complete with swimming pool and plunge pools, nestled on the edge of a steep sided valley through which Balis sacred Ayung River wends it way on the final stage of its journey to the sea.

In the summer of 1970, Philip Leider — then the editor of Artforum, the journal of record for American art of the moment — got into a car with two friends, the artists Joan Jonas and Richard Serra, and drove off to see a newly finished artwork: Michael Heizer's Double Negative, a pair of cuts in the rock of a Nevada mesa, directly facing each other on opposite sides of a steep valley.

The nightmarish flash floods in southwestern Arkansas early Friday morning that swept away dozens of campers — with some 18 confirmed dead and many more still missing — resulted from a horrible confluence of a late - night burst of extreme rains over a region of steep - sided, isolated river valleys long popular with folks eager for a taste of nature.

I can think of around 50 steep sided valleys where the Boscastle scenario could happen and many more where there isn't a river involved.