Mountainsides

The team on board were examining sediment carried by melt water, and even to the untrained eye the glacial retreat is glaringly obvious, the “tide marks” of former ice levels striping the mountainsides, rivers of slurry cascading seaward.

Like most Coloradans, she’d become accustomed to images of blazing forests and smoking mountainsides.

To date, 104,000 ha of agrarian land have been awarded in the Cordillera, where the terrain requires many small farms and gardens to be carved out of mountainsides.

Widespread in the rugged, rocky mountainsides of Greece, it occupies a special place in the history of Greece, which has a long history of employing natural remedies for a host of ailments.

And frequent rain means spectacular waterfalls from the surrounding mountainsides.

This can prove a challenge, however, when faced with steep slopes, cliff faces and mountainsides.

Have they not put men and women inside barrels studded with spikes and rolled them down mountainsides into the abyss?

Average yearly rainfall along the windward east coast frequently exceeds convert, and exposed mountainsides receive up to convert, among the highest accumulations in the Caribbean and the world.

Even the boarding houses were precariously placed on the mountainsides.

In Port-au-Prince, colorful shantytowns surround the central city and go up the mountainsides. citation The middle and upper classes live in Suburbs, or in the central part of the bigger cities in apartments, where there is urban planning.

Land was reclaimed from the sea and from river deltas by building dikes and drainage, and rice paddies were built on terraces carved into mountainsides.

Yearly precipitation, largely generated by the warm and moisture-laden northeasterly trade winds, varies from more than convert on the windward mountainsides to less than convert in the lowlands.