Access to the mountaintop is difficult.

The action took place in a mountain village.

He fishes in a mountain stream.

Avalanches have been reported across the mountainous nation.

The action took place in a mountain village.

I used to live in a mountainous area.

Homes chiseled into the mountain side in Beit Baws.

In 1929, Obruchev was elected to the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

This is because Toulouse is a university town.

Edinburgh A. Fullarton Co., 1862.

The capital of Ecuador is Quito, in the mountainous province of Pichincha.

She grew up in a picturesque mountain village.

The whole mountain features dinosaur exhibits and dinosaur themed activities.

Pindos is the biggest mountain range in the country, often characterized as The Spine of Greece .

Maritza Blandón, a coffee grower in the mountains of Nicaragua, got her first pap smear at the age of 47.

Peak Chapaev in the Tien Shan range, a break out of the greater Himalayan chain that runs across Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and into China and Uzbekistan.

In the past week, the attention of Kyrgyzstani bloggers has been very firmly centred on political events in this small, mountainous Central Asian country.

Communities living in mountainous areas, such as in the Andes, or Central Asia, or the highlands of East Africa, are especially isolated.

In the Philippines, activists held rallies across the country to highlight the detention of dissidents and the militarization of anti mining communities.

The indictment describes brutal crimes mass murders, rapes, and the dislocation of hundreds of thousands of people carried out systematically in the Guatemalan highlands.

I went and knocked on the door of the Rio Tinto Chair of Advanced Mineral Extraction at the Royal School of Mines and said, How do you make steel?

Google Translate is now available in over 100 languages, one of which is the Kyrgyz language, spoken mostly in the mountainous Central Asian country of Kyrgyzstan.

The available evidence is that the many thousands of men, women, and children who have sought refuge in the Sinjar mountain range of northern Iraq are indeed at risk.

History The traditional view was that Gaelic language was brought to Scotland, probably in the 4th century, by settlers from Ireland, who founded the Gaelic kingdom of Dál Riata on Scotland's west coast.

Women such as Leonora Pocaterrazas, 21, who died in childbirth not long ago in the mountain village of Columpapa Grande, Bolivia, leaving her husband to raise three other children on his own.

If the previous video showed how things are starting to go with mining in Mongolia, in Kyrgyzstan they already have a long history of negative effects mining has had on the environment, health and local communities.

President of the Congress Daniel Abugattás has declared his hopes that the ministers of environment, production, energy, and mining inform the Peruvian parliament about this case.

DG All this stuff is happening along that 40,000 mile long mountain range that we're calling the ribbon of life, because just even today, as we speak, there's life being generated there from volcanic activity.

As Tajikistan prepares to welcome home its gold winning Rio 2016 athlete Dilshod Nazarov, Global Voices reminisces over this and other sporting achievements the small, mountainous, Central Asian country has recorded over the course of its fraught 25 year independence.

In the United States, around 4 of the population in 1950 was employed in agriculture, 38 in industry (including mining, construction, and manufacturing), and 58 in services.

Kyrgyz is spoken outside Kyrgyzstan, notably in Russia, where up to a million Kyrgyz migrants live and work, and in Tajikistan, where Kyrgyz communities live along the Pamir mountain range.

An article published at mongabay.com exposes the destructive environment impact of mining in remote Indonesian towns.Some scholars fear that parts of Indonesia now have the highest levels of mercury contamination on earth.

As one scientist friend puts it if you are driving on a mountain road, approaching a cliff, in a car whose brakes may fail, and a fog bank rolls in, should you drive more or less cautiously?

The highest peak in the Tian Shan is the Victory Peak (пик Победы in Russian or Jengish Chokusu in Kyrgyz) which, at , is also the highest point in Kyrgyzstan and is on the border with China.

As one former mining manager in the region told me, The aim was always simple get the assets out of the ground and out of the country as cheaply and with as little fuss as possible.

Since 2011, dozens of soldiers and police officers lost their lives in attacks by groups affiliated with Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, particularly in the mountainous Chaambi area along the border with Algeria, where the Okba Ibn Nafaa Brigade is very active.

Though it has become something of an international joke, a properly made haggis really is delicious and just the thing to fill you up on a chilly day, ideally washed down with a wee dram a tumbler of whisky from one of the famous highland distilleries.