Sentence examples for close to mountains from inspiring English sources

He noted that it appeared to be surrounded by forests and close to mountains, and the possibilities of outdoor recreation and mountaineering seem to have influenced his decision as much as the chance to create a completely new type of school in India.

The governor of Tunceli, a town close to mountains where the PKK was particularly active, said recently that 6,200 people in his province had applied for compensation under the new law.The government is also making modest attempts to help Kurds who were forcibly removed from their villages to return home.

By affixing cameras to their helmets and gliding precariously close to mountains ("proximity jumping," in wingsuit parlance), jumpers like Jeb Corliss and Roberta Mancino (an Italian model most widely known for sky diving naked) produce heart-racing clips that have elevated them to cult-hero status.

In 1984 the United States Forest Service interpreted the act to ban mountain bikes from wilderness areas; as a result, every new acre officially declared to be wilderness is open to hikers and horses, but closed to mountain bikers.

In some cities people build their houses very close to the mountains, despite the fact that flooding coming from the mountain will destroy their homes.

The researchers initially thought that being close to the mountains would be a predictor of high diversity, but some collection sites near the mountains had low diversity, and some downtown sites were surprisingly high in insect diversity.

I know I'm supposed to say I love it here because it's so close to the mountains.

By contrast, desert bighorn sheep might be expected to stick close to the mountains where they find their water.

Beyond architecture, there are other advantages to working close to the mountains, including a lenient attitude toward winter recreation.

When to go: In the morning, as the False Bay coast is close to the mountains and loses the sun early.

The fifth of sixth children, she was raised in Altadena, an unincorporated Los Angeles suburb close to the mountains the science-fiction writer Octavia Butler used to walk.