Many mountain roads, often treacherous at the best of times, remain blocked by landslides, making it extremely difficult for supply trucks to get to the higher Himalayan foothills.
Taller willows, grasses, and plants in the sunflower and legume families (Asteraceae and Leguminosae, respectively) are common on the sands and gravels of riverbanks, but vegetation is quite sparse on higher lands, foothills, and Arctic mountains.
A continued influx of families to the Pleasanton region prompted the foundation of another high school, Foothill, in 1973.
My boot of choice is a shin-high Danner Foothill model with a Vibram sole and a hard rubber heel a good inch and a quarter tall.
The large expanse of sal forests in South Asia encompasses a variety of climate: dry habitats in west to moist habitats in east, plain to foothills, high to moderate temperatures and low to high latitudes in the northern tropical region of Indian subcontinent.
Mr. Qadrihe spoke during a tour of an abandoned Taliban camp at Shundar, high in the foothills of the Hindu Kush Mmountains at the border of Nangarhar and Kunar Provinces.
It would last six weeks, taking Slowinski's team 200 miles into the barely inhabited north of Myanmar, near the border of China, high into the foothills of the Himalayas.
The trade capped a head-spinning year in which Cesar and Melanie were married in January, had their baby in July and in August purchased their four-bedroom, four-bathroom house, which sits high in the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains and has a panoramic view of the Southland.
Since leaving Melbourne, we'd been climbing higher into the foothills.
