Sentences with phrase «than the tallest mountains»

The deluge rose higher than the tallest mountain.

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Have you figured out how the volume of the earths water was expanded and then contracted to the level required (about 23 feet taller than the highest mountain), Where all the water came from and what pushed much of it from the earth, what replaced the water when it was forced from the earth?

The Alps aren't necessarily really higher, but you start from much lower than on the high plains in CO — so the mountains are actually a bit taller (from base to summit) which I think adds to their spectacularness

He pointed to no less than five places where four feet tall mountains of the tins were displayed.

A 16 - point second - half deficit against the undefeated No. 1 high school girls team in the country — especially against a team that has been your nemesis for more than a decade — is a tall mountain to climb.

The rims, more than 150 kilometers across, encircle pits that are nearly as deep as the mountains are tall.

Saturn's third - largest moon, 900 - mile - wide Iapetus, is girded at the equator with a unique ridge of mountains (photo on the left and in detail at right) that reach a height of 6 miles, taller than Mount Everest.

The St. Elias Mountains in Alaska are more than 5000 meters tall, testament to a tectonic plate wedged underneath the region that is driving them up like a snowplow.

Because of these characteristics, scientists didn't expect mountains on Titan would tower quite as high as those on Earth, which can rise to more than 5 miles (nearly 9 kilometers) tall.

In fact, the highest mountain on Earth is actually a seamount — Hawaii's Mauna Kea, a dormant volcano that is more than 30,000 feet tall measured from its base on the seafloor 18,000 feet beneath the surface.

Copy editor Rusty Blackwell hauled four friends — three of whom were more than six feet tall — five hundred miles to Boyne Mountain for Saint Patrick's Day.

The gearing is wayyy too tall (performance of the manual tested elswhere is quite a bit slower than Edmund's long - term 340i auto), so despite the mountains of low - end torque, it doesn't give you that «kick» on takeoff.

The mountains are taller, steeper and more jagged than other mountain ranges in Colorado, making the ski area next to the town particularly attractive to expert skiers and riders.

The East Face above Landslide lake has a drop of close to 1,300 metres (4,300 ft), longer than that of El Capitan in Yosemite, making it one of the tallest continuous mountain faces in the world.

Other than the winter sports, the main attraction in Chamonix is Aiguille du Midi, where the cable cars will take you up to the summit height of 3,842 m. From the summit, you can have a panoramic view of Chamonix as well as Mont Blanc which is 4,808 m, the tallest Mountains in the Alps.

Both Silver and Schweitzer mountain tops stretch taller than 6,000 feet.

The train's domed panoramic windows are taller and wider than all others currently operating on this route giving passengers an enhanced view of the soaring Andes mountain range as they travel to Machu Picchu.

This is one of the most geographically diverse of the islands, too, with soaring mountains (including Mauna Kea, which at 33,000 feet from the base of the ocean floor to its peak is quite a bit taller than even Mt. Everest), active volcanoes, lava - sand beaches, lush rainforests, the largest city outside Oahu (historic Hilo), a significant swath of desert plains, and sunny beaches lined with plush resorts.

Salkantay Mountain is probably one of the most impressive mountains I've ever seen and standing tall in front, it definitely inspired us to continue as we zig - zagged our way to our lunch spot, 500m higher than our starting point.

The Himalayas, home to the tallest mountains on Earth, include more than 110 peaks and stretch 2,500 kilometers.

All of them sit across the Himalayas from Kathmandu (they're only the worlds tallest mountain range after all) presumably in the mountains or on the Tibetan Plateau, since average temperatures are all 10 degrees C or more lower than Kathmandu.