Sentence examples for a precipitous mountain from inspiring English sources

Among the disgraced works was "Drinking and Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain".

It begins in familiar style with Bond flooring the accelerator of his Aston Martin and looking quite unperturbed as he weaves in and out of the oncoming traffic on a precipitous mountain road.

Twelve of us were wedged — somewhat precariously, I thought — in one of Asif's Pajeros, as he drove us along a precipitous mountain road on our way to an old hill station of the Raj for a family outing.

Not only was "Drinking and Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain" a spectacular example of the monumental landscape tradition — a view of cloud-dappled peaks, densely forested slopes and swirling waters — but the painting's pedigree also seemed impeccable.

Standing on the summit of Scafell, a stubby, precipitous mountain if taken from the wrong angle, he has chosen to descend at random, 'too confident, and too indolent to look around' for a safe route down.

With E Company leading, 2nd Battalion moved along the dirt road into a gorge with precipitous mountain walls.

Sikkim is a basin surrounded on three sides by precipitous mountain walls.

Noble wrote, "The fantastic disorder of the rock masses that form the precipitous mountain ranges bordering Death Valley imparts a quality of strangeness to the scenery that is felt even by the casual visitor".

From the Tora Bora district, in the shadow of 14,500-foot peaks, it is a grueling six-hour walk up rock-strewn riverbeds and precipitous mountain trails to the international border, and on to remote tribal areas of northwestern Pakistan.

Antananarivo is by far the most populous of these; perched on two precipitous mountain ridges, the old part of the city is dominated by the ruins of the Queen's Palace (Manjakamiadana) and has an extremely picturesque, almost medieval appearance.

"The experience was not physically pleasurable," Mr. Soderlund said of the precipitous mountain course, which gains and loses more than 40,000 feet of elevation.