The highest summit finish the Tour has ever seen on top of its most fearsome mountain, preceded by two of its highest passes, the Agnel and the Izouard," wrote Guardian bike-racing correspondent Will Fotheringham in our interactive guide to the Tour de France.
"It starts gently, all meadows and butterflies and ends with you on top of this gnarly fearsome mountain peak, surveying a shattered landscape below".
It's a beautiful, fearsome sight.
By Alexander Nazaryan April 19, 2013 At the beginning of "The Cossacks," Leo Tolstoy's early novel about imperial Russia's military campaign in the Caucasus, the protagonist Olenin muses about the battles to come: "All his dreams about the future were connected with… Circassian maids, mountains, precipices, fearsome torrents and dangers".
At the beginning of "The Cossacks," Leo Tolstoy's early novel about imperial Russia's military campaign in the Caucasus, the protagonist Olenin muses about the battles to come: "All his dreams about the future were connected with… Circassian maids, mountains, precipices, fearsome torrents and dangers".
Photograph: Library of Congress At the beginning of "The Cossacks," Leo Tolstoy's early novel about imperial Russia's military campaign in the Caucasus, the protagonist Olenin muses about the battles to come: "All his dreams about the future were connected with… Circassian maids, mountains, precipices, fearsome torrents and dangers".
After Eddard Stark Sean Beann) convinces King Robert Mark Addyy) not to join the Tourney, the crowd watches a jousting match between the fearsome Ser Gregor "The Mountain" Clegane, brother of "The Hound," and Ser Loras Tyrell, "The Knight of Flowers".
Although he no longer owns those particular paintings, Mr. LiPuma has gone on to acquire four more Hartleys, among them the fearsome "New Mexico Recollection" (1923), an intense, stormy view of a mountain so turbulently painted that it almost seems to rock on its base.
Fried scorpions on a miniature mountain of glass noodles in Beijing, artfully arranged to simulate fearsome arachnid battle.
Over this weekend, I wanted to meet two men who embodied the horror of the civil war of 1975 to 1990: Walid Jumblatt, the Druze warlord of the Shuf mountains just south of Beirut, and Samir Geagea, the once-fearsome leader of the Christian Lebanese Forces, or Phalanges, who had notoriously slaughtered the Palestinians of Shatila in 1982.
