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...Around 350 bears now roam the mountains between Asturias and neighbouring Cantabria and the number is still increasing year-on-year....
...A 10-minute walk from the Shadow Mountain chairlift, the hotel’s roof-terrace lounge bar, with plunge pool and views of Aspen Mountain, promises to become a fixture on the après-ski scene....
...One of the old trees still bears a shard of shrapnel. We were staying a few winding miles away at the old stone village of Kapsaliana....
...Fraser has mountains left to move. Given this, the temptation is to write Citi off....
...I’d paid little attention when someone had mentioned that these forests were home to bears, lynx and wolves....
...Mist had settled in the valley, and the snow-tipped peaks of the Carpathian Mountains were visible in the distance....
...Soon we were in open country, with the canal to our right and, to our left, unharvested maize fields and orchards laden with huge red apples (yes, we stole a couple)....
...Outside there is a two-bedroom cottage, tennis court, spa, pool, streams and orchards. Why A roof deck has 360 degree views, including Bear Mountain and the Berkshire Mountains....
...It’s also a physical space for them to express themselves to each other and for other people to bear witness to our dialogues.”...
...Colossal bareheaded mountains were rising to meet us....
...This winter, Woodward and Lambert will move their tent, and the whole Bluebird operation, just up the road to Bear Mountain, which offers 1,200 acres of terrain and, they say, more reliable snow....
...areas in the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir which takes in part of the Himalaya mountain range....
...They brought east and west together at a time when the British, the only other Europeans who succeeded in ruling this area, were still running through the fog dressed in bear skins....
...wildlife, especially bears....
...They’ll be back up the mountain in 2021 , but perhaps by then we’ll remember not to listen....
...Yet what is left of the palaces and mosques there bears witness to a courtly culture every bit as extraordinary as that of al-Andalus....
...I’m a polar bear!” The scene is played for laughs, but it was added for a serious reason....
...At that time this bucolic plateau cradled by the Carpathian Mountains, which only became part of Romania a century ago, was forever fearful of invasion from the east....
...We drove through deep valleys and wooded gorges on single-track roads that carried us up to dizzying mountain passes. For hours at a time we were the only traffic on these mountain roads....
...Just look at Dell, which is plotting its return to Wall Street after using a mountain of debt to build a private IT conglomerate....
...Even Jim Chanos, perhaps the most renowned of Tesla bears, admitted as much in a recent podcast with Bloomberg's Barry Ritholtz....
...They had no internet or mobile signal, but fed us lavishly with the fresh and abundant products of their cowsheds, orchards, beehives and vegetable gardens. They cooked on wood stoves....
...Today’s Silicon Valley was carved out of a rich agricultural land of apricot and almond orchards....
...Tech start-ups worth $1bn are no longer rare enough to bear comparison with unicorns. Buyouts of listed businesses by private equity investors are more eye-catching beasts these days....
...The mountain setting and obdurate protagonist bear striking similarities to fellow Austrian Robert Seethaler’s international bestseller A Whole Life....
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