Julian Barnes I decline to buy the sudden idea of a "humanitarian war" when it will be conducted on current American guidelines: keep US casualties below the level of an average supermarket-mall massacre, bomb from high altitude, road-test the latest hardware, and oops, sorry about that wedding party which just went up in smoke.
Many mountain passes and high altitude roads have road information signs on their approaches.
The high-altitude roads of the Peruvian Andes are notorious for bus accidents like Friday's.
WEST DOVER, Vt .— There were far too many skis on hand this week at High Altitude, a rental shop on the road to Mount Snow here, and Andrew Glover, the manager, was far too lonely.
In his defence, the conditions in which he made his T20I debut were the toughest in the world for a spinner – an absolute road at the high altitude of the Wanderers with a small, fast outfield – but the manner in which he bowled was concerning.
From a young age they cut their teeth on mountainous roads and at high altitude: Asmara is 2,325 metres above sea level, at the tip of an escarpment of the Great Rift Valley.
In what was billed as the world's toughest road marathon, 26.2 miles at high altitude that went up and up and then up some more, hundreds of runners huffed and puffed up one of Tucson's highest peaks.
The injury mechanisms most likely to cause a pelvic fracture are high-speed road traffic accidents and falls from high altitude.
These were then either driven by road or flown by helicopter to remote high altitude streams or lowland lakes and streams, and released.
Although we had a great guide and chose a well-regarded tour operator, the excursion was also grueling because of the endless miles bouncing over rutted, sometimes nonexistent, roads and the bitterly cold nights at high altitude.
