In 1860, while carrying out a survey of Howe Sound on board the Royal Navy survey ship HMS Plumper, Captain George Henry Richards was impressed by a gigantic mountain dominating the view to the northeast.
But after 500 years of exploitation, the hill which, at almost 16,000 feet, is actually a gigantic mountain towering like a skyscraper above the ramshackle churches and plazas of this city of 240,000 people is as exhausted as its workers.
We built this mountain of empties in the corner, a gigantic pile of debris in the corner.
Less than 24 hours before, West seemed on top of the world, almost literally – rapping from the top of a gigantic manmade mountain.
However, if you don't live or work somewhere that is situated near a gigantic, illegal mountain of rubbish and waste, the shitting, vomiting insects are probably something you can tolerate.
Except now developing countries are lumbered with a gigantic private debt mountain to pay down.
On the morning of May 18, an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.1 on the Richter scale triggered a gigantic landslide on the mountain's north face.
Twice the size of its New York counterpart, the Parque is a gigantic green finger of mountain that reaches down into the city from the Andes.
Ralph Fiennes is on glorious form as Monsieur Gustave, the legendary concierge of the Grand Budapest Hotel in the early 1930s: a gigantic edifice in the mountains.
Soon, Chesterfield will be nothing but a blue plateau, four enormous beige squares looming on the horizon, a Greggs larger than a city, a Greggs larger than the moon, a gigantic cathedral to carbohydrates, mountain-sized flakes of sausage rolls pastry tumbling over the Midlands.
(AP) -- Stiff winds whipped up a gigantic blaze in the mountains of eastern Arizona on Monday, forcing the evacuation of a third resort town and casting a smoky haze over states as far away as Iowa.
