Hints and tips:
...“Now I am living it.” We stopped on a high granite outcrop, where David’s team held up a large antennae....
...North and west, the Jokulfall river, winding out of the Hofsjökull glacier, crosses plains of stone and pumice ash. Behind us, Kerlingarfjöll is fulminating another storm....
...We kick crampons between crystal ridges and turquoise slits in the surface. Azure crevasses cut down out of sight as we process into a frozen churn of ridges and bowls....
...Dynamite fishing had devastated the rivers....
...Set on the banks of the Reuss river, the 300-year-old chalet oozes charm, with its exposed timber beams, geothermal heating and antique skis mounted on the walls....
...We look out over the pressure ridges and cracks, past the black dots of seals, searching in the distance for patches of yellow, like pee stains on the ice....
...Behind a nearby ridge, there is a holy river fed by the glaciers of a holy mountain. Every year, one man from every household must attend a spiritual retreat in a remote gompa, high above the village....
...Freya HouldingAh, well, I’ve just gone up that ridge and I’m, whoo! That ridge. Leo HouldingAwesome....
...They were so beautiful they reduced Walters to tears as she “looked a last time at the France I knew, peaceful with its flowing rivers and green hills . . ....
...Why In addition to the six miles of trails within The Cliffs at Walnut Cove, the property is a 10-minute drive from the Blue Ridge Parkway, which provides access to ample hiking routes in the Blue Ridge...
...Tiny windows look over the mountain ridges once patrolled by the SAS, now stomped by goats....
...Later we soar up a bank of trees, birch tips twanging on the basket, to crest a ridge that plummets suddenly. It’s like the footage they capture with drones, except that you’re living it....
...And Jabali Private House, in the concession of Jabali Ridge, one of the excellent lodges in the Asilia Africa portfolio....
...Carrying a 20-kilo rucksack holding a knife, a first aid kit and a walkie-talkie, German Bellene, a burly Argentine guide, steps up on to a high ridge in the Parque Nacional Los Glaciers....
...The exhibition has been mounted with the financial support of Saville’s gallery Gagosian, whose contribution assisted with the renovation of the chapel in the Novecento....
...A high bowl from the summit ridge drops into a broad gully between rocky outcrops....
...“But we never really thought it was going to turn into the wildfire that it did,” says Daman, who assisted Patricia Field on Sex and the City early in his career....
...For at least 60 years, a population of red-necked wallabies lived wild on the Roaches — a ridge at the western tip of England’s Peak District National Park....
...Standing on a ridge in the Sierra Madre range in Carbon County, I look out....
...We cross a river in torrent, leeches clinging to our ankles, and lope through outrageously lush jungle, everything green and dripping, clouds webbing the ridge overhead....
...“Much of the dune ridge of Uist is narrow and vulnerable to breaching,” he tells me via email....
...We ford rivers, weave through cedar forests and cool off in belly-deep pools. We gallop hard and see no cars – not a soul, in fact, for the rest of the day....
...There are plenty of zebra, giraffes and baboons as you head north on a bone-shaking dirt road along the ridge of the Mutumba Hills....
...It looks like a Wales of rumpled ridges, oak and beech, gorgeous and rough. Following boar tracks, we plunge along, man and boy both suddenly five....
...The visitor succeeded, although “nobody seemed to know who Repton might have been, not even the family living in the same cottage”....
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