Many passes are closed in winter.

Anybody got any clues? Ski. Right.

Toraja is an indigenous group in the mountainous region of South Sulawesi.

It inhabits open woodland, river valleys, and open hills and mountains.

When you come to the Chechen highlands, you are received in the same way.

C. l. neglecta (Hume, 1873), is found in the mountains of eastern Central Asia.

All secondary and tertiary roads are also passable, including mountain roads.

Alpine pastures occur at higher altitudes and mesophytic forests on more fertile soils.

Glaciers existed in the mountains of Ethiopia and to the west in the Atlas mountains.

Analyzing the history of science in Kazakhstan shows that our perennial leaders have been found in natural science geologists, mining engineers, biologists.

The mountain forests around the area prevent the city from floods and overheating of the area during summer.

Go and take a look at the highlands of Chiapas, here there are indigenous Muslims, a big time bomb. We need to be careful.

His first poetry collections Mountain Trails (1957), Kindness of the Earth (1959), Green Rain (1960) were acclaimed by critics and readers alike.

And for the first, I don't know, three to five years of their life, mountain bikes were known as clunkers.

Colombia presents the militarized version, with specially trained battalions of soldiers skimming over jungles and mountainsides, spraying defoliants from helicopter gun ships.

They are the Japanese gypsies or Sanka , written as 山家 (people of the mountains) or 山窩 (mountains nomads).

I told the warden that I wanted to start a mountain biking club in this place and that basically I wanted to take the kids from here to there.

So let's give kids 20 years from now, 30 years from now something to look upon when they gaze up at the mountain slopes above Iwaki.

With a mixture of despair and anger I watched thick red brown clouds spill over the ridges and fill the whole valley with smoke...and i cried.

Afghanistan's jagged, sky scraping mountain ranges have over centuries been its best defence against foreign invasions, but there are other ways they can be put to use for the country.

Sendero, which supplemented its income with drug production and timber smuggling, deliberately chose drought weakened and deforested mountain villages as the stronghold of its insurgency.

She saw the mountain ranges in the backdrop of Seoul and realized that mountains she would draw as a child in the US were actually from memories of South Korea.

This was disastrous for the Caribbean but fortuitous for The Bahamas, as the Caribbean islands tend to be mountainous, and mountains help to break up hurricanes organization.

In North America in the Northern Plains of the United States and the Southern Plains of Alberta and Saskatchewan, there's this unit of rock called the Hell Creek Formation that produces the last dinosaurs that lived on Earth.

These two highlands provide the area around Central Kenya with much of its water and this also trickles down to the other parts of the country in Nairobi, Eastern and Coastal regions.

I don't mean touristic destinations such as Arkhyz or the vicinity of Mount Elbrus I'm talking about places where ancient ways are maintained, such as highland Dagestan, highland Ingushetia, highland Chechnya, or highland Kabardino Balkaria.

Some places in the world are very remote from international trade think of the Andean highlands, the mountainous regions of Iran, Iraq, and Afghanistan the landlocked countries of Africa, such as Rwanda, Burundi, Burkina Faso, or the landlocked regions of Central Asia.