Like nearly everyone who comes to Cape Town, we couldn't wait to head straight up Table Mountain. |
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At the Yucca Mountain Information Centre, videos and wallcharts trumpet the efforts to ensure that the site is safe. |
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You probably heard of the case, the young woman from Bozeman, Montana, who got kidnapped by Mountain Men. |
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Marty was in a drunken haze when his wife Gloria announced she was adopting a Bernese Mountain Dog. |
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Mountain sheep were everywhere, some sleeping by the road, some foraging, bells ringing from their necks as they moved. |
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South Mountain was a name for nearby Mt. Lu, a landmark site in northern Jiangxi Province known as an abode of hermits, religious communities, and spirit beings. |
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When the buzzer sounded, the score was Wyoming Indian 69, Rocky Mountain 53 and the fans poured out on to the court. |
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The Colorado River snakes through the Mountain states, at one point forming the Grand Canyon. |
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The minettes of Buell Mountain are felsic, and many contain ground-mass quartz. |
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Survivor reaches as many as 28 million viewers who watch contestants win a new Pontiac or guzzle Mountain Dew after scaling an arduous cliff. |
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Now I'm hungry as a Rocky Mountain lion so come, let's go and get this poor, daffy, tealess widow and wine and dine with her and make it all up. |
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Mountain climbers need additional oxygen because of the hypobaric conditions. |
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It follows the Vyrnwy to its confluence with the River Severn, and then continues southwards, rising over Long Mountain east of Welshpool. |
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More recently, vehicles have been painted white, and are issued with fittings similar to civilian UK Mountain Rescue teams. |
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Mountain lines and distant horizons lend space and largeness to his compositions. |
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In game 2, I am again sort of manascrewed, as I am held to 3 lands, 2 Springs and a Mountain. |
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The South Wales Mountain is similar to other Welsh Mountains, but is rather larger. |
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The fleece of the Welsh Mountain sheep varies considerably across the range of varieties. |
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The meat of the Welsh Mountain lamb is much esteemed, and carcasses have often won prizes at shows like the Royal Smithfield in London. |
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In the USA, waste management policy completely broke down with the ending of work on the incomplete Yucca Mountain Repository. |
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Oolitic hematite occurs at Red Mountain near Birmingham, Alabama, along with oolitic limestone. |
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The summit is reached by the Culdee Fell Railway, which is based on the Snowdon Mountain Railway in Wales. |
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The Kruger Park and Table Mountain National Park are two of South Africa's most visited tourist attractions. |
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As they climbed higher into the mountains, the final challenge arrived at Mammoth Mountain where they have to race across the snowy mountain. |
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Ticks of the genus Ixodes can infect wolves with Lyme disease and Rocky Mountain spotted fever. |
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A second variety, the Rocky Mountain Douglas fir, grows in the Rocky Mountains from British Columbia south to Mexico. |
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Adapted to a moist, mild climate, it grows larger and faster than Rocky Mountain Douglas fir. |
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Scottish writer Nan Shepherd speaks of the heather in her book The Living Mountain. |
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The rocks that form Cape Agulhas belong to the Table Mountain Group, often loosely termed the Table Mountain sandstone. |
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The Marble Mountain Ski Resort near Corner Brook is a major attraction in the winter for skiers in eastern Canada. |
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This is in marked contrast to the predominantly sandy sediments of the Table Mountain Group. |
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The Cape of Good Hope section of Table Mountain National Park is home to several species of antelope. |
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Mountain ranges are known to take many millions of years to erode to the degree they effectively cease to exist. |
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Mountain biking began in the 1970s, originally as a downhill sport, practised on customized cruiser bicycles around Mount Tamalpais. |
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Downhill mountain biking has just evolved in the recent years and is performed at places such as Whistler Mountain Bike Park. |
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These efforts have resulted in significant regionally adapted breeding lines and hybrids, such as the Mountain series from North Carolina. |
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Chipping petroglyph on the White Tank Mountain Regional Park Waterfall Trail, Arizona. |
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Mountain caribou are typically the most massive with the largest circumference measurements. |
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Mountain zebras and plains zebras live in groups, known as 'harems', consisting of one stallion with up to six mares and their foals. |
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Mountain climate is one of the unique features of the Andes and other high altitude reliefs where climate is determined by elevation. |
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Sections of the flood basalts have been eroded away, but still form a basaltic mountain range known as North Mountain. |
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Bubble Rock, a glacial erratic, is a large boulder perched on the edge of Bubble Mountain in Acadia National Park. |
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The river narrows considerably here before flowing under the Bear Mountain Bridge, which connects Westchester and Rockland Counties. |
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Most of Malheur County is in the Mountain Time Zone, while the rest of the state lies in the Pacific Time Zone. |
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On May 5, 1945, six people were killed by a Japanese bomb that exploded on Gearhart Mountain near Bly. |
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Li is also briefly mentioned by name in Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain and The Young Flying Fox. |
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Mountain ranges average 2,305 meters and flat areas lie at around 1,725 meters above mean sea level. |
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This area of Tennessee is covered by fertile valleys separated by wooded ridges, such as Bays Mountain and Clinch Mountain. |
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With this book, Podhoretz has managed to wangle himself admission to the writer's Big Rock Candy Mountain. |
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The Minntac mine is located near Mountain Iron, Minnesota and the Keetac mine is near Keewatin, Minnesota. |
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The site is now occupied by Cockermouth Mountain Rescue and the town's fire station, operated by Cumbria Fire and Rescue Service. |
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The Keswick Mountain Festival is an annual festival held in May in Keswick, Cumbria, England. |
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The temporary Keswick Mountain Festival Village is sited on the shores of Derwentwater. |
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In 2004, Zellweger won the Academy Award, the Golden Globe, the BAFTA Award and the SAG Award for Best Supporting Actress for Cold Mountain. |
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Mountain biking has become popular since 2002, when the area was the setting for the biking events of the 2002 Commonwealth Games. |
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The Tuscarora Formation forms a clear anticline in Wills Mountain at Cumberland Narrows, Maryland. |
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Examples of plutons include Denali, Cuillin, Cardinal Peak, Mount Kinabalu and Stone Mountain. |
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Well, we gotta get to Big Bear Mountain before those smokey bears close off the entrance to the mountains. |
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Llanberis Mountain Rescue went to his aid and he was airlifted to hospital by an RAF helicopter. |
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Published by the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Arthritis Foundation, Arthritis Observer goes to its members, donors, friends and families. |
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By the time the Asama Mountain Lodge confrontation began, the United Red Army had beaten 14 of its comrades to death. |
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Amira is finding her form in time for the National Mountain bike championships on July 22 in Wasing, near London. |
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It is also just 20 minutes from world-class skiing at Whiteface Mountain, the greatest vertical drop on the east coast at 3,430 feet. |
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In April 1945, seventeen men of the church gave a wiener roast at South Mountain Park. |
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In the news release, New Mountain High Yoghurt Promotes Healthy Digestion and Assists in Calcium Absorption, issued Wednesday, Oct. |
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Bokan Mountain, Alaska's only known source of uranium, is rich in niobium, yttrium, thorium, zirconium and hafnium. |
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Further NATO operations included the Battle of Panjwaii, Operation Mountain Fury and Operation Falcon Summit. |
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To the north are the Lliw uplands which are mainly open moorland, reaching the foothills of the Black Mountain. |
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It is regarded as a fine mountain, but can become quite crowded, particularly with the Snowdon Mountain Railway running to the summit. |
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It largely follows the line of the Snowdon Mountain Railway, and is considered the easiest and least interesting route to the summit of Snowdon. |
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When the Snowdon Mountain Railway was opened in 1896, it added its own accommodation and sales outlet near the summit. |
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In the hills of Appalachia, in a cove that no living man will ever find, is a Mountain Ash unlike any other in the world. |
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Pinter's experiences in Turkey and his knowledge of the Turkish suppression of the Kurdish language inspired his 1988 play Mountain Language. |
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The Green Mountain Head Regatta continues to use the stake format but it is run as a head race with an interval start. |
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Mountain biking is becoming more popular with dedicated trail centers in Wicklow, Dublin, Galway and Tipperary. |
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For the 1911 Isle of Man TT, the first TT event using the Snaefell Mountain Course or Mountain Course, two separate races were introduced. |
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The new technical challenges of the Mountain Course forced changes on entrants and motorcycle manufacturers alike. |
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Mountain glaciers in otherwise unglaciated areas extend to lower elevations due to a lower snow line. |
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The Torngat Mountain range is also home to Mount Caubvick, the highest point in the province. |
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The largest of these occurs yearly at Pleasanton, California, Grandfather Mountain, North Carolina and Estes Park, Colorado. |
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The next year, Manson was one of the final guests to appear on the cult US children's show Pancake Mountain. |
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Brown's Boys, Two Doors Down and Mountain Goats have been lambasted by critics. |
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Mountain biking was held on the Cathkin Braes in Rutherglen, the Royal Burgh neighbouring the City. |
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Mountain glaciers are widespread, especially in the Andes, the Himalayas, the Rocky Mountains, the Caucasus, Scandinavian mountains and the Alps. |
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This tunnel was originally constructed to drain metal mines in Halkyn Mountain. |
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Fforest Fawr and Black Mountain extend into the east of Carmarthenshire and the Cambrian Mountains into the north. |
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The common Welsh Mountain sheep are hardy and thrive in the cold and wet conditions of the Welsh highlands. |
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Parys Mountain dominated the world's copper market during the 1780s, when the mine was the largest in Europe. |
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He bought shares in eight Cornish copper mines and met Thomas Williams, the 'Copper King' of the Parys Mountain mines in Anglesey. |
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Although most cairns discovered in the area are round, a ring cairn or cairn circle exists on Gelli Mountain. |
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Mountain rescue in south Wales is provided by five volunteer groups, with the police having overall command. |
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The old mountain road to Dwygyfylchi and Penmaenmawr runs through the Sychnant Pass, at the foot of Conwy Mountain. |
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The Romans also built a watchtower on the top of Holyhead Mountain inside Mynydd y Twr, a prehistoric hillfort. |
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The current lighthouse is on South Stack on the other side of Holyhead Mountain and is open to the public. |
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Towns in the region included Aberdare, Caerphilly, Pontypridd, Maesteg, Merthyr Tydfil and Mountain Ash. |
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In 2011 this period was made the subject of a BBC documentary titled The Mountain That Had to Be Painted. |
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Just over a month later, Welsh was back fighting in Mountain Ash, to face little known French lightweight Henri Piet. |
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The Welsh Mountain sheep is usually white with a white face with no wool on forehead or cheek and white legs with no wool below the joint. |
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The Welsh Mountain sheep is well suited to the harsh environment in which it lives. |
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There are a number of varieties of Welsh Mountain sheep, named for their locality of origin or their appearance. |
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Operation Mountain Thrust was launched on 17 May 2006, with. |
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Prominent cities in the Mountain States include Denver, Colorado Springs, Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, Salt Lake City, Boise, El Paso, and Cheyenne. |
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In the late 1990s, Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team erected two posts on the summit plateau, to assist walkers attempting the descent in foggy conditions. |
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Mountain Lion includes updates to Safari and also incorporated a number of features from its iOS system, but the most important update of all is AirPlay Mirroring. |
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Standing on top of Trash Mountain and affirming the Messianic promise of the kingdom of heaven, we cannot help but take responsibility for recycling and reducing consumption. |
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Midlands Mountain trail during winter, in Harbison State Forest. |
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Its Blair County property was sited at the foot of ganister-covered Dunnings Mountain to compete with the Mount Union plants making silica bricks for the steel industry. |
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The leader of 602nd Commando Company on Estancia Mountain realised his position had become untenable and after conferring with fellow officers ordered a withdrawal. |
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Later that year it was announced the line had been purchased by the owners of Brecon Mountain Railway, becoming the first part of British Rail to be privatised. |
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Mountain quail, sooty grouse, American dipper, great grey owls and the grey jay will be part of the Lane County Audubon Society's June birdwalk Saturday near Oakridge. |
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You may wish to consult a physician about a tickbite, because ticks in this region carry Rocky Mountain spotted fever, which is transmittable to humans. |
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It is sometimes claimed that the earliest folk festival was the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, 1928, in Asheville, North Carolina, founded by Bascom Lamar Lunsford. |
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Her 77-year-old mother Marita was working at the Druk Amitabha Mountain DGK nunnery outside Kathmandu when the first earthquake hit Nepal in April. |
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Cradle Mountain, another dolerite peak, for example, was a nunatak. |
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Some bunkers in the mid to late 20th century came to be buried deep inside mountains and prominent rocks, such as Gibraltar and the Cheyenne Mountain Complex. |
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While Lookout Mountain was the loftiest summit, some of the other ridges rose almost as high.... September had now come and the winds were growing crisper in the high country. |
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In 1620, the rebellion in Bohemia was crushed at the Battle of White Mountain, and the ties between Bohemia and the Habsburgs' hereditary lands in Austria were strengthened. |
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Cornwallis suffered reversals at King's Mountain and Cowpens. |
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As after the defeat of the Loyalists at King's Mountain, Cornwallis was criticized for his decision to detach a substantial part of his army without adequate support. |
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The most crucial juncture of this was at Kings Mountain, and the victory of the Patriot partisans irreversibly crippled Loyalist military capability in the South. |
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The territories of the Military Region I, II, III and IV included the border provinces with China and Vietnam, along with the Annamite Mountain ranges. |
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In North America, Norway spruce is widely planted, specifically in the northeastern, Pacific Coast, and Rocky Mountain states, as well as in southeastern Canada. |
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There was also controversy surrounding the construction of the funicular Cairngorm Mountain Railway on Cairn Gorm, a scheme supported by the new National Park Authority. |
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Jamaica is also home to Red Stripe beer and Jamaican Blue Mountain Coffee. |
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Temperatures are slightly higher inland, except for the southern highland plateaus, such as the Mountain Pine Ridge, where it is noticeably cooler year round. |
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Contestants in River Deep, Mountain High had to take part in a gruelling 36-hour endurance test which involved everything from hiking and biking to absailing and canoeing. |
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Perched on a peak amidst the leaf peeper's paradise of Western North Carolina, Fire Mountain Inn is a secluded retreat with close ties to the land. |
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He carried on the struggle for several months, but in June 1283 was captured in the uplands above Abergwyngregyn at Bera Mountain together with his family. |
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Teesdale and Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue Team, are based at Sniperly Farm in Durham City and respond to search and rescue incidents in the county. |
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They are closely linked to the geological formations that are exposed in the spectacular cliffs of Table Mountain, Cape Point and the Cape of Good Hope. |
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Legend has it that Allen fell asleep at the base of Broad Mountain and woke to the sight of a large fire because his campfire had ignited an outcrop of anthracite coal. |
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Adjacent to the lake is a scenic area which includes historical pagodas, cultural sites, as well as the natural beauty of the lake and hills, including Phoenix Mountain. |
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On 22 June, Dafydd and his younger son Owain ap Dafydd were captured at Nanhysglain, a secret hiding place in a bog by Bera Mountain to the south of Abergwyngregyn. |
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Dugommier was killed in the Battle of the Black Mountain in November. |
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Parys Mountain is thus one of the few sites in Britain where there is evidence for the prehistoric beginnings of the British metal mining industry. |
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The South African Marine Living Resources Act is strictly enforced throughout the Table Mountain National Park, and especially in marine protected areas. |
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Black Mountain, in the Black Mountains, on the border between England and Wales, was formerly counted in both countries but is now treated as being in Wales only. |
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The Brecon Mountain Railway is easily accessible by cycle and car. |
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The Blue Peris Mountain Centre, operated by Bedford Borough Council and Central Bedfordshire Council, conducts various outdoor activities at the quarries. |
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A Loyalist wing of his army was utterly defeated at the Battle of Kings Mountain on October 7, 1780, which temporarily aborted his planned advance. |
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The Penrith Mountain Rescue team whose operating area covers the Eden Valley, North Pennines and the area towards the Scottish border also has a base in Tynefield Drive. |
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The region is carbonate rock based and includes Massanutten Mountain. |
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Fourteen states and two Canadian provinces have reported chronic wasting disease, which strikes mule deer, white-tailed deer, Rocky Mountain elk, and occasionally moose. |
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Parys Mountain on Anglesey was former the world's largest copper mine and contains a wide range of minerals including Pyrite, Galena and the rate Anglesite. |
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It raised funds for the Bowland Pennine Mountain Rescue Team. |
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According to old Nordic texts, the Sea Sami and the Mountain Sami are two classes of the same people and not two different ethnic groups as had been erroneously believed. |
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The club was formed in 2009 as South Wales Scorpions, initially playing at The Gnoll in Neath before spells at Caerphilly, Mountain Ash and Maesteg. |
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Thus, the Mescalero Apache renovated their Inn of the Mountain Gods to include gambling as well as the previous tourism, lodging, and skiing in the older Inn. |
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Breeds favoured by modern wool producers, which originate from Wales, include the Badger Face Welsh Mountain, the Balwen Welsh Mountain and the Black Welsh Mountain. |
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In the former Yugoslavia, the 7th SS Volunteer Mountain Division Prinz Eugen was formed with about 50,000 ethnic Germans from the Banat region of Serbia. |
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