| There's so little fresh water and the volcanic landscape is so inhospitable, only a narrow, unique spectrum of creatures thrive. |
| Water is in short supply, the soil is barely arable, the terrain often inhospitable. |
| The figures move carefully and deliberately across inhospitable terrain, picking their way through the dusty, red-rock desert. |
| It is a harsh, inhospitable land, covered in flies and governed by insufferable temperatures that defies easy civilization. |
| He was among 700 competitors in a gruelling 150-mile race across some of the most inhospitable terrain in the Sahara Desert. |
| So why would any sane recreational diver seek to dive in such an inhospitable environment? |
