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...In 2020, a hunter landed a helicopter on a public square there with his wife....
...Rio Tinto’s board has approved the world’s biggest mining project in west Africa, chief executive Jakob Stausholm said as he outlined the company’s ambition to produce iron ore from the $20bn development...
...We phoned mountain rescue again and 10 minutes later we could hear the distant but unmistakable sound of helicopter rotors getting closer. I felt overwhelmed with relief....
...There is also a sauna, wine cellar and helicopter pad....
...Aspen Snowmass is opening a new lift that will whisk skiers to a high, north-facing portion of Aspen Mountain for the first time....
...When I lived in the city, which is just a short hop on a seaplane or helicopter from downtown Vancouver on the mainland, I was unashamedly a fairweather golfer....
...The journey takes us over the snow-capped mountains and tumbling waterfalls that flank the Romsdalen valley in the west of Norway....
...We saw a government helicopter so maybe they are doing reconnaissance.”...
...Accessed by private tunnel, the pair of adjoining chalets (the seven-bedroom East Wing and six-bedroom West Wing) perch above the prestigious Petit Alaska enclave....
...They have imported three fixed-wing planes and two helicopters....
...There are those who can afford a trip to the great mountains out west — airfare, accommodation, larcenous lift tickets, equipment rentals, overpriced restaurants — and there are those who cannot....
...I ask the route and Lham’s finger scans miles of unmarked mountain, then drops through a 1,000ft lattice of cliffs. There is no path. “How did the Russian get there?” I ask. “Helicopter,” he replies....
...The park dominates the south-west of the South Island, spreading across 12,600 sq km of largely uninhabitable land that has been protected by various government bodies since 1904....
...The only way off was either get to the end, or get a helicopter or a boat off, or die.”...
...They proudly guard an ancient culture and language — and some of Europe’s greatest mountains. I was part of an east-meets-west experiment in 21st-century heli-skiing....
...I’d flown to Pristina in Kosovo, then taken a three-hour taxi west, rain turning to snow as we drove....
...It also prides itself on its slow travel philosophy, in contrast to the operators offering rapid circuits of Annapurna or helicopter-assisted treks to Everest base camp....
...Here there were no lifts, no snowcats and no helicopters....
...The village of Balmoral, south-west of Sydney, has been decimated by the Green Wattle Creek firestorm....
...The place certainly didn’t look much, but what Mick Boyle spotted in the ramshackle ruin at the foot of the Slieve Gullion mountain near where his parents had grown up — and where he himself was born, before...
...Beyond stretch unearthly mountains that look like they belong to some far-distant galaxy....
...Arriving by helicopter – a spectacular, 30-minute commute over plains, rivers and mountains from Christchurch – illustrates how well the building is positioned to best capture the station’s views: a long...
...You need time to acclimatise, and the mountain weather is capricious....
...And yet here it was, on top of a mountain in the not-quite forgotten world of Ruapehu, where they even let us keep our shoes on....
...In the Swiss Alps, military helicopters were called on to lift water into the mountains to keep cow herds from dying of thirst. It is grim news....
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