As soon as we were at the bottom we began spotting the rock art: strings of llamas, giant flightless birds (rheas) and, all alone on a separate crag, a puma.
Fifty feet above it, shards of Hadrian's Wall stubornly clung to the top of a vast crag.
There is a deadline: a UN convention gives its signatories, including India and Pakistan, until 2009 to fix their maritime waters, or lose rights over them.Resolving Siachen, a battlefield of crag and ice, where India holds the heights, looks deceptively simpler.
ON A desert crag of Syria's Qallamoun mountains, a troubled goat-milking Jesuit, Paulo the Monk, struggles to reconcile the revelations of Christianity and Islam.
Beneath the helicopter's blades, the woods thicken and the terrain rises to a seam of limestone crag, dripping with trees.
PERCHED on a sheer crag of mountain, the medieval fortress-village of Shatili guards the northern approaches to a remote valley in Georgia's Caucasus mountains.
Later in the same year he attacked Oxyartes and the remaining barons who held out in the hills of Paraetacene (modern Tajikistan); volunteers seized the crag on which Oxyartes had his stronghold, and among the captives was his daughter, Roxana.
The port, southeast of Árgos, sits on the north slope of twin crags; Itche (or Its) Kale (279 feet [85 m]), the western crag, forms a small peninsula in the bay and is the site of a Hellenic fortress, while the much higher Palamídhion (705 feet), with a Venetian castle, dominates the port from the southeast.
Standing on a crag, it became by the 2nd century bce a post on the Via Egnatia to Bitola and Greece.
Among the species encountered in the interior regions are ostriches; various raptors; secretary birds, guinea fowl, and Nubian bustards; desert eagle owls and barn owls; sand larks and pale crag martins; and brown-necked and fan-tailed ravens.
The Augustinian abbey, built on the first available expanse of solid ground at the foot of the volcanic crag and tail, was founded in 1128 and rebuilt about 1220.
