Sentence examples for alpine mountainside from inspiring English sources

Speeding down a snow-covered Alpine mountainside on a bike was never going to end well but a cyclist has captured the sheer chaos of a race doing exactly that.

Fastow Henry on Twitter.

Living and traveling together for 44 days — moving as a caravan through busy towns and silent forests, sleeping on roadsides and mountainsides, crossing rivers and alpine passes, sharing the joys and tribulations of the trail — we became close.

After a frightening tumble down the mountainside in the downhill event, Austrian Alpine skier Hermann Maier returned to the slopes to capture the gold medal in both the supergiant slalom and the giant slalom.

The 1880s saw a shift from Nordic skiing (cross-country skiing), to Alpine skiing (downhill skiing), because the adrenaline rush of gliding down a mountainside had more mass appeal than skiing across level terrain.

From the summit, one by one, boarders can carve a personal line down an unscathed mountainside, where it's not uncommon to find wildlife, such as a herd of leaping Alpine ibex, watching your every move.

The rewards of success included an imposing mountainside retreat and frequent mention of his name as a possible future finance minister of this small, idyllic Alpine country.

Alpine, Texas.

The plane was on an Alpine sightseeing tour from Locarno, in the Italian-speaking region of southern Switzerland, to Dübendorf, an airport near Zurich, when it crashed into the mountainside near the ski resort of Flims, in eastern Switzerland.

As an Alpine spectacle, the Hahnenkamm in Kitzbühel, Austria, is unrivaled — two minutes of fear, skill and brinkmanship delivered at close to 90 miles per hour on a mountainside packed with 45,000 schnapps-sodden fans.

BILL GOTTDENKER Mountainside, N.J.