It seems to have provided a pattern for Hindu temple mountains at Angkor (see above Cambodia and Vietnam), and in its own day it must have been one of the wonders of the Asian world.
Their military base, controlled by the former defence minister Ahmad Shah Masood, is in the Panjsher valley, 70 miles north of Kabul, where steep mountain walls have provided a solid defence since the Soviet occupation.
Engaging young minds High in the mountains above Port-au-Prince, another portable playground has provided a needed boost in morale.
Burmese defectors have provided detailed accounts of a North Korean reactor, perhaps a mirror of the one provided to Syria, built inside a mountain deep in Myanmar.
More recently, the mountains have provided the town with drinking water and hydroelectricity, as well as hopes of attracting tourists to one of Peru's poorest areas.
The glaciers, the icebergs and the ice coated mountains have provided endless awe to the explorers and commanded the respect of the indigenous people.
Our analysis shows that regional structures in the mountains have provided preferred pathways for ice flow from the East Antarctic Ice Sheet across the Transantarctic Mountains barrier to the Ross embayment in West Antarctica.
Its high altitude, sharp light and mountains have provided artistic inspiration for thousands of painters and sculptors ever since Georgia O'Keeffe, one of America's most revered painters, moved to the area in 1949.
Within the island, mountains have provided additional opportunities for isolation.
But testing devices lowered through small shafts bored vertically from the mountain above have provided conflicting signals.
