Sentence examples for greatest mountain from inspiring English sources

West of the Turfan Depression is one of the greatest mountain knots of the eastern Tien Shan: the Eren Habirga Mountains, which reach elevations of 18,200 feet (5,550 metres).

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It is like a massive conveyor belt carrying water and sediment from the world's greatest mountain system into the Indian Ocean.

Asia also contains the greatest mountain mass on Earth's surface: the Plateau of Tibet and the bordering mountains of the Himalayas, Karakoram Range, Hindu Kush, Pamirs, Kunlun Mountains, and Tien Shan.

In fact, this intrepid Italian climber, who lugged Dallmeyer cameras weighing up to 40 pounds and glass plates of 2 pounds each, is thought by many to have been the greatest mountain photographer of all time.

But another Italian mountaineer, Reinhold Messner, who made the first solo ascents of Everest with no oxygen and is often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time, said he admired Dr. Houston's doomed 1953 expedition more.

In "Legends," the repeated shots of the bare-chested Brad Pitt, blond hair waving in the wind as he rode before the Montana peaks, might have been outtakes from the greatest mountain-brew commercial ever made.

This is one of the greatest mountains in the entire territory of the Ionian zone (Albania and Greece) (Karakitsios 2003).

Most other people regard them like non-mountaineers regard Everest: "I'm sure it's a great mountain, but damned if I'm climbing it".

Several general climatic zones may be delineated in Alaska, excluding the great mountain ranges.

Several of the world's great mountain ranges were built during the Cenozoic.