Sentences with phrase «summit of an icy»

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As he described the icy summit of Mount Toubkal in southwestern Morocco, where he spent 2 days of therapeutic hiking following a conference in Marrakech, he reminded me of the writing of naturalist John Muir: «Thousands of tired, nerve - shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.»

The film focuses on the last stretch of the climb, from camp four through a narrow pass known as the Bottleneck, beneath a serac, an icy overhang 100 metres high that could crack at any time, and then on to the summit.

From the icy, windswept summit way above the tree line, the broad blacktop curves down to the Ziller Valley, where my mother's family still owns a couple of guest houses, a trout farm, and a small farm close to the bottom of the hill.