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...Below the hulking rocky mass of the Devil’s Point, a group of young women approach a small mountain shelter on a rainy late-summer day. Grey skies bear down....
...According to the North Atlantic Salmon Conservation Organization, the number of wild Atlantic salmon fell by more than half between 1983 and 2016....
...Wittenbecher’s latest property is a stone-built 19th-century lighthouse on a rocky bluff near the Asturian fishing village of Cudillero....
...Research from the Rocky Mountain Institute published yesterday argues “there is a clear exponential growth pattern for electric vehicle sales”....
...They are indeed very distinctive, almost wild, and the Jasud wines rarely have more than 13 per cent alcohol, much less than the northern California norm....
...Far across the valley were the sandstone spires evoked in “Rocky Ravine” (1822-23)....
...The case has to survive appeal to prove this was no wild goose chase....
...We like to take a ferry out to rocky Monhegan Island and spend the day hiking, followed by eating fish tacos on the beach at The Fish House....
...Clumps of euphorbia and wispy wild clematis, a cobalt sky, the white-wigged mountains that stand guard over every horizon....
...These inshore waters are part of the Table Mountain National Park Marine Protected Area....
...“From the sea for as far inland as the eye can reach nothing is to be seen but the summits of these rocky mountains, which seem to lay so near one another as not to admit any valleys between them.”...
...Holmlund sees Cliffhanger as an offshoot of both Rocky and Rambo: the haunted man out in nature....
...Because of the unpredictable currents and rocky coastline, it has long been notorious among sailors....
...The coast is as though on a different planet from the mountains we have left behind, but just as dramatic in its way, both wild and sublime....
...We took our time, savouring the spring flowers: the bright purple of the irises and cream of the lilies all the more striking against the rocky hillside....
...I spent last week in the rarefied Rocky Mountain air of the annual Aspen Security Forum. (Full disclosure, the FT is the ASF’s print media partner and my wife, Niamh King, is its director.)...
...Today, there are an estimated 4,000-6,000 snow leopards surviving in the wild, sparsely distributed across the Central Asian and Himalayan mountains....
...Only on the last day do we drop from the mountains, after pushing our bikes for the final, rocky kilometre of a pass....
...The Dandenong Ranges, a mountainous gateway stretching about 50km between suburbia and wine country, remain sparsely populated and wild....
...It has an infinity pool overlooking a watering hole and a view across the vast Rift Valley plain, dotted with little rocky hummocks, so perfect it seems to come from the Platonic realm....
...Steps carved into the rocky shoreline lead past a kitchen garden, a pen full of goats, ducks, and chickens, and down to a secret swimming spot, with a handful of deckchairs shaded by bamboo pergolas....
...Perhaps one could start a specialist travel agency for such places, Dystopian Tours Inc, which would specialise in Graham Greene-style third world disaster areas....
...But, when tasked with opening a new office for the firm in Salt Lake City this year, he found that neither his name, nor his employer’s brand, resonated quite as widely in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains...
...Next time, it will be wild camping or staying in a cabin. So much more romantic....
...A server set her a place with napkins in the colours of the Ukrainian flag, before laying out a dinner of potato, cheese and wild herb pie....
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