Sentences with phrase «tallest peaks in»

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.

The two tallest peaks in Africa, Mount Kenya and Mount Kilimanjaro, are here.

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.

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.

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.

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 Gobi - Altai mountain range in western Mongolia is in a very dry region but ice can accumulate on mountaintops, such as Sutai Mountain, the tallest peak in the range.

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.

Iceland's Baltasar Kormakur takes an all star cast (Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Jason Clarke, John Hawkes, Keira Knightley, Robin Wright, Sam Worthington, Emily Watson) up the world's tallest peak in upcoming survival thriller Everest.

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.

Imagine studying in Peru during the week, then spending the weekend exploring the Andes mountains in full living color — while your friends back home are looking out their apartment window at the tallest peak in the neighborhood — a hill.

Mount San Gorgonio — nicknamed «Old Grayback» — is the tallest peak in Southern California, at 11,502 feet / 3, 506 meters.

Mount Kawagebohttp: / / nomadchina.wordpress.comMount Kawagebo (or Kawagarbo) rises 6,740 meters above sea level — the tallest peak in Yunnan Province, China.

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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.»

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.

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 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.

At around 70,000 feet, the peak stands more than twice as tall as Mount Everest and is rivaled in the solar system only by Mars's monster volcano, Olympus Mons.

The IODP team wants to test a leading model for peak ring formation, in which granite from Earth's depths rebounds after a major impact, like water struck by stone, to form a central tower, taller than the crater rim.

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.

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.

SPOKANE, Wash. — A cloud type that spawns tall tales almost as much as Sasquatch is known to linger over peaks in the Cascade Range.

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

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.

After If I Stay and When the Game Stands Tall, we now get The November Man, from Australian - born New Zealand director Roger Donaldson, a man who in the past has given us such reasonably competent thrillers as No Way Out, Dante's Peak (which, like this new film, starred Pierce Brosnan), Thirteen Days and — my favorite among them — The Bank Job.

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.

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....

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.

This is especially important in peak tick season or if your dog spends time in the woods or tall grass (consider avoiding these areas in tick season).

In her free time, Dr. Kroeger enjoys playing the piano, reading both classic and Christian novels, attending Bible study at church, scrapbooking, bike riding and hiking the tallest mountain peaks in different states with her sisterIn her free time, Dr. Kroeger enjoys playing the piano, reading both classic and Christian novels, attending Bible study at church, scrapbooking, bike riding and hiking the tallest mountain peaks in different states with her sisterin different states with her sisters.

In winter, guests can strap on cross-country skis and head out for the day right from the Chateau, which is best known for its magnificent lakefront location, surrounded by snowcapped peaks and tall firs.

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.

Adam's Peak is the second tallest mountain in Sri Lanka and is a popular hiking trail that is also linked to several religious roots.

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 eucalyptuIn 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 eucalyptuin 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 eucalyptuin 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.

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.

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.

Tall peaks formed statue - like mountains in the distance that seemed to look down on, and protect, the forest.

It is home to three of the most famous and prominent mountains of the state: the ever - active Kilauea in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, the largest mountain in the world in volume (Mauna Loa) and the tallest mountain in the world as measured from its base on the sea floor to its peak (Mauna Kea).

There is an extensive trail systems at Cockscomb and trail leading up to Victoria Peak the second tallest mountain in Belize surpassed by Doyles Delight which is further south of Belize.

The next morning, with the sun shining and a wonderful blue sky in the background, I had my first real view of the majestic High Tatras, and, in particular, the two peaks of Vysoká (literally «tall» or «high» in the Slovak language), the second highest mountain in the Little Carpathians, and one considered by many to be the most beautiful in both the Tatras region and in Slovakia as well.

The bigger of the twin peaks and the most popular tourist draw, Volcan Concepcion is the second tallest volcano in Nicaragua and it's no pushover.

Amongst the Maya Mountains is the second tallest mountain in Belize, Victoria Peak.

The spectacular terrain is naturally bound by some of Chile's tallest peaks, granting it more consistent and abundant snow conditions, as well as a considerably longer ski season than any other Heli Ski operation in the southern hemisphere.

Mt. Aspiring Hut is a spacious mountain hut, albeit in the middle of nowhere, with floor to ceiling windows that perfectly frame Mt. Aspiring — one of New Zealand's tallest peaks at nearly 10,000 feet — at the head of the valley.

Whether you're an expert mountaineer or an amateur fell walker, there are lots of holiday cottages in Cumbria that are perfectly placed for exploring those tall peaks and rugged uplands.