Sentence examples for greatest alpine from inspiring English sources

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

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.

On less-than-smooth roads, the ride was somewhat harsh - mostly due to the ultra-low-profile tyres and sports suspension - but this was a small price to pay for the traction when it came to hairpinned descents from the great Alpine cols, taken as if on rails with never a hint of tyre squeak or rear-end float.

The scenery belies the relatively low altitudes, with great alpine hiking at just 2,000m above sea level.

Running all the way from Lake Geneva in Switzerland to the Mediterranean coast of the French Riviera, the Route des Grandes Alpes (Great Alpine Road) is the granddaddy of European road trips.

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.