Sentence examples for great alpine from inspiring English sources

I was climbing the great alpine passes of the Tour de France.

It will clear tonight for blue skies and great Alpine skiing today.

The top station is one of the great Alpine viewpoints, but it is an alarming place, too.

It was not pretty but, as in 2000 when he took the great Alpine stage to Briançon, it worked.

German civil engineer who was primarily responsible for the successful driving of the Simplon Tunnel, largest of the great Alpine tunnels.

Semmering, most easterly and lowest (3,232 feet [985 metres]) of the great Alpine passes, at the boundary between Bundesländer (federal provinces) Steiermark (Styria) and Niederösterreich (Lower Austria), in east-central Austria.

It is the southernmost range of the great Alpine-Himalayan chain in the eastern Mediterranean; like much of that extensive mountain belt, it is formed largely of deformed masses of Mesozoic limestone.

Hermann Maier acknowledges that he has lost the aggression that helped him become one of the greatest Alpine skiers.

The achievement, a triumph of will as much as skill, had the head coach of the Great Britain alpine skiing team, Tony McAllister, in tears.

Climate warming and heavy livestock grazing are known to have great impacts on alpine ecosystems.

Such extensional allochthons, will then logically constitute the most internal continental slices buried at great depth during Alpine subduction.