Being the runner -
up of the highest mountains in Indonesia dares several fearless risk - takers to take up on the vertical challenge.
Not exact matches
In the past two years, Unilever has used its
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The meeting with Satan is Matthew's story
of the temptation in the desert... and how else did Satan get Jesus
up to the top (and down again)
of an «exceeding
high mountain» if not by flying?
We have to account for the supernatural when the Devil took Jesus
up to the
highest mountain to show him all
of the kingdoms
of the world.
The gospels tell
of an occasion when Jesus took three disciples, Peter, James and John,
up a
high mountain and was transfigured before them, so that his clothes became dazzling white.
Then the devil, taking Him
up on a
high mountain, showed Him all the kingdoms
of the world in a moment
of time.
It shall come to pass in the latter days that the
mountain of the house
of Yahweh shall be established as the
highest of the
mountains, and shall be raised above the hills; and all nations shall flow to it, and many peoples shall come, and say: «Come, let us go
up to the
mountain of Yahweh, to the house
of the God
of Jacob; that he may teach us his ways and that we may walk in his paths.»
I have found one
of the most valuable to be the exercise
of imagining myself journeying
up a
mountain path to enjoy communicating with my
higher Self at the summit.
Acquaintance with this legend formed part
of the necessary background to the Gospel account
of the transfiguration
of Jesus in which it is reported that three
of the disciples were led by Jesus
up a
high mountain where he conversed with Elijah and Moses as they appeared to him.
He thought
of Jesus who underwent scourging, carried his cross and walked more than a thousand paces,
up to the summit
of a
high mountain, and so on.
Reminds me
of those pictures
of mountain cliffs and
high up in the middle
of the face
of the cliff grows a single tree out from a crevice.
Luk 4:5 And the devil, taking him
up into an
high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms
of the world in a moment
of time.
At that instant
of time when I gave all
up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden
of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under
mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings
of faith, freed from the chains
of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my
high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.
5 And the devil, taking him
up into an
high mountain, shewed unto him all the kingdoms
of the world in a moment
of time.
After six days Jesus took with him Peter, James and John the brother
of James, and led them
up a
high mountain by themselves.
Get you
up to a
high mountain, O Zion, herald
of good tidings; lift
up your voice with strength, O Jerusalem, herald
of good tidings, lift it
up, do not fear; say to the cities
of Judah, «Here is your God!»
In order to «climb a
high mountain» and see «all the kingdoms
of the earth,» and in order for the resurrected Christ to «ascend in the clouds» where believers will join him, heaven has to be «
up there» above a flat plane
of the earth.
I grew
up in a very predominately white religious community in the
mountains of central California (Oakhurst / Coarsegold to be exact) and have managed to separate myself from almost everyone I went to
high school with / knew growing
up through religious happenings on facebook.
The capital
of San Marino is itself called «San Marino» and is situated
high up on a
mountain top.
This pie is lemony, and the crust is so flaky (because I didn't make it) and I pile the meringue
up so
high that it looks like a
mountain of clouds.
The Ranch offers secluded cabins with EPA approved low - emission fireplaces and kitchen facilities, two guest lodges, including the newly opened
High Lonesome Lodge, two restaurants featuring organic / sustainably focused cuisine, 35 miles
of trails for hiking and
mountain biking (summer) and 130 + km Nordic trail system for cross country skiing and snowshoeing (winter), a year round professional horsemanship program and stables including Summer Wrangler Camps, trail riding, skill training and feed rides as well as hiking,
mountain biking, fly - fishing, zip - lining, stand
up paddle boarding, adventure / skill training courses, and a nature - based, 18,000 sq. ft. restorative spa featuring massage, facials, body wraps, soaks and more.
Ravello is a town very
high in the
mountains, and the bus ride
up took us on some
of the tightest serpentines we've ever seen.
Him and my mom had a ritual
of going far and
high up into the Caucasus
Mountains for a few weeks in the late summer to gather mushrooms and berries.
Piles
of laundry are blocking the bedroom door, there's a new shade
of pink crayon on the couch, deadlines are piled
up on my desk
higher than the husband's
mountain of stinky running shoes (that's bad), and the dog's obsessive licking habit has officially caused yet another grey hair on my head.
Higher in the
mountains,
up at around 7,400 feet, where one can look down on Reno lying in the next valley, are thick groves
of cedar and aspen.
Last weekend 730
of the best, brightest, and fastest
high school and middle school
mountain bike racers in the country showed
up to tackle the windy winding single track
of the Tehachapi venue.
The
highest rates
of breastfeeding are observed among
higher - income, college - educated women > 30 years
of age living in the
Mountain and Pacific regions
of the United States.60 Obstacles to the initiation and continuation
of breastfeeding include physician apathy and misinformation,61 - 63 insufficient prenatal breastfeeding education, 64 disruptive hospital policies, 65 inappropriate interruption
of breastfeeding, 62 early hospital discharge in some populations, 66 lack
of timely routine follow -
up care and postpartum home health visits, 67 maternal employment68, 69 (especially in the absence
of workplace facilities and support for breastfeeding), 70 lack
of broad societal support, 71 media portrayal
of bottle - feeding as normative, 72 and commercial promotion
of infant formula through distribution
of hospital discharge packs, coupons for free or discounted formula, and television and general magazine advertising.73, 74
FORTY HOURS - Daily Gazette's Ned Campbell: «Maddie Popolizio and her boyfriend, Blake Alois, had just reached the top
of Algonquin, the second -
highest mountain in New York state, when what they had planned as a quick day hike went south... When the snowstorm hit at the summit, the couple's instinct was to climb back down the
mountain immediately, but the whiteout prevented them from seeing the trail they followed
up, she said.
The ghost tree
of Railroad Ridge Somewhere in the Cloud
Mountains of central Idaho,
high above a sea
of spruce and lodgepole pine, a jagged crest
of peaks called Railroad Ridge juts
up against the sky.
Current observatories could also help reveal what makes spinning neutron stars called pulsars tick, mapping their starquake - shaken interiors and any centimeters -
high «
mountains» (which would weigh roughly the mass
of a planet because
of neutron stars» extreme density) that could pop
up on their surfaces.
The resulting
high - resolution images and video, released yesterday and cobbled together using data gathered by the Voyager missions
of the late 1970s and the Galileo probe that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003, depict
mountains that range
up to 17 kilometers
high, active volcanoes, dark lava fields, and bright plains smothered by sulfur deposits that have rained down from plumes that spew hundreds
of kilometers
high.
The new images, at resolutions
of about 80 meters per pixel, show a striking shoreline, where smooth plains
of nitrogen ice from Pluto's «heart» rub
up against water ice
mountains several kilometers
high.
The half - lives (the period in which radioactivity halves)
of these atoms range
up to tens
of thousands
of years, a feature that led U.S. government regulators to require that the planned
high - level nuclear waste repository at Yucca
Mountain in Nevada isolate spent fuel for over 10,000 years.
Thus, if a parcel
of air from the surface rises (because
of wind flowing
up the side
of a
mountain, for example), it undergoes an expansion, from
higher to lower pressure.
They are typically generated at
high altitudes by stratospheric
mountain waves — when strong winds that blow over the tops
of high mountains are driven
up towards space.
Previous research has shown that alpine flora and fauna are especially vulnerable when it comes to global warming and that the upper and lower boundaries
of populations» home ranges have been moving
higher up the
mountain with every successive generation.
When the ice age ended, these ancient species and other, more recent ones were ready to take advantage
of habitats that opened
up in the
mountains»
higher elevations — and the plants and trees speciated like mad.
The researchers could tell that seeds had been deposited
higher up the
mountain than they had been harvested by the ratio
of their oxygen isotopes, which changes with altitude.
As their habitats heat
up, pikas living at low elevations have one major shot at avoiding extinction: migrating to cooler,
higher parts
of the
mountain.
Though once widespread, this endangered species is only limited to fragmental
mountain forests, and the
highest altitude (
up to 4,500 meters)
of any primate, making them a fascinating subject for evolutionary biologists to study to reveal the genetics behind their adaptations.
Some previous ground - based estimates
of ice loss in these
high Asian
mountains have ranged
up to 50 billion tons annually.
The result: more winter precipitation falling as rain instead
of snow, two - tenths
of an inch to more than half an inch a day, pushing the snowline in the
mountains up from 3,000 feet to
higher than 4,000 feet.
The Department
of Energy submitted a construction licence application for the Yucca
Mountain repository to the NRC in 2008, but following 2009's presidential elections the Obama administration subsequently decided to abort the project, appointing a
high - level Blue Ribbon Commission to come
up with alternative strategies.
That scenario gained support when an early close -
up picture revealed
mountains, some 3500 meters
high, composed
of water ice.
You can choose from hundreds
of miles
of high - alpine trails, including the super popular Trail 401 loop: It's 14 miles
of intermediate - level
ups and downs, leading to an 11,339 - foot summit and 360 - degree views
of the Elk
Mountains.
And so, by filtering out that blue haze, on a clear day standing on top
of a
mountain, individuals with
high macular pigment — lutein and zeaxanthin phytonutrients from greens — may be able to distinguish distant
mountain ridges
up to 27 miles further than individuals with little or no pigment.
Even if the idea
of shaving your head and joining a monastery
high up in the
mountains isn't your idea
of fun, there's a good reason to learn to relax: it's great for your mood and it can keep you looking lean.
We went to have a lunch in a restaurant located
high up on a
mountain top, it was a perfect place to enjoy a great meal with good company and beautiful view
of the beautiful Istanbul.
Not sure if there are any in central Jersey, but the likelihood
of that is way
higher than
up in the
mountains of WV!
In pure action adventure terms, Spectre delivers the goods, with plenty
of revved -
up supercar porn and several kinetic
high - speed chase sequences on road, river and snowy
mountain slope.