He was a member of the board of directors for The Sharp Mountain Preserve for a period of five years (2008-2012).
Often compared to Monte Zoncolan in Italy, the Angliru was unknown before 1996 when a member of a Spanish cycling team decided to check out rumours of a super-steep climb hidden away in the Picos de Europa, the razor sharp mountain range that isolates the Asturias region from the rest of Spain.
Geomorphic signatures, like the sharp mountain fronts along the HFT in some places, as well as along various hinterland subordinate faults like the Nalagarh Thrust (NaT), the Barsar Thrust (BaT) and the Jawalamukhi Thrust (JMT); the change in the channel pattern, marked by a tight incised meander of the Beas channel upstream of the JMT indicate active tectonic movements in the area.
The country's varied topography and its sharp mountain peaks, such as the Southern Alps, owe much to the tectonic uplift of land and volcanic eruptions.
'My life is all about grass and water,' says Jean-Marc Salis, scratching his stubble in the well-worn threshold of the shepherd's cottage that is his summer home, 'and so was all that trouble back in the 14th century.' We've left the misty foothills and climbed into a pin-sharp mountain morning up near the Pyrenean peaks of Arlas and Anie.
Our home for the week would be Gala, a village of wooden cabins surrounded by a quintessentially Norwegian landscape of sharp mountains dotted with sheep, dark green forests and glittering lakes.
There was also a sharp-suited mountain whose only task was to help the rap queen, who recently had foot surgery, out of the hydraulic box from which she made her entrance.
This spring the photographer Dominick Tyler is publishing Uncommon Ground, which pairs 100 place words with 100 photographs of the phenomena to which the words refer, from arête ("a sharp-edged mountain ridge, often between two glacier-carved corries") to zawn (a Cornish term for a "wave-smashed chasm in a cliff").
To the west, sharp mountains rose behind a glassy emerald lake reflecting slow-moving clouds; a family of herons roosted by the water.
The ancient lake is a deep blue of the purest water, surrounded by sharp mountains and amazing wildlife.
