Sentence examples for daunting mountains from inspiring English sources

As he turns 60 and the world's most daunting mountains are no longer his adversaries, Mr. Messner has turned his intensity on the people around him.

After the first four stages in the Netherlands, including a swoop into Germany, the riders will finish in Belgium at Liège before a rest day lets them fly to the mother country at Tarragona and a few days later enter the first of many daunting mountains for five finishes at their summits.

And although sections like Brasstown Bald and Burkhalter Gap may sound tame compared with climbs through the Alps and the Pyrenees, riders can attest that the north Georgia mountains are daunting.

I am no longer a graduate student, but I am still learning -- especially about shifting expectations and about facing mountains that appear daunting, one innovative step at a time.

I had wanted to climb Longs since arriving in Colorado a decade ago, but the mountain always seemed too daunting.

Yet exceeding still-unwritten flood standards is a ruefully far-fetched notion for New York and New Jersey residents, for whom mountains of ruined possessions are the immediate reality and rebuilding at all is a financially daunting question.

And daunting?

The party faces the daunting challenge of capturing 117 seats to achieve a majority of just one – a task described by a shadow cabinet member as a "mountain to climb".

Both are daunting.

His brief is daunting.

That task is daunting.