Sentence examples for mountain onto from inspiring English sources

Mount Garibaldi is known both for the very high quality exposures of its internal structure and for its conspicuous topographic anomalies, which can be attributed to the growth of the mountain onto a large glacier system and the subsequent collapse of the flanks of the volcano with the melting of the ice.

Once I cross the mountains onto the plateau where Shangri-La lies, the mood changes.

After doing his stint onstage, Alexander Mieling, a German trance music D.J. and producer, spent much of the rest of the night dancing in the crowd before volunteering to go back on for a post-dawn session that extended the music long past the scheduled 5 30 a.m. finish, when dawn first leaked over the desert mountains onto the wadis and the coral reefs below.

It is located along the Portneuf River where it emerges from the mountains onto the Snake River Plain, along the route of the Oregon Trail.

Yes, I am having fun shooting birds out of the sky, and interacting with loopy strangers, and trotting my horse down from snowy mountains onto dusty plains.

Bassano was the son of a moderately talented painter whose workshop-home was close to the town's famous covered wooden bridge that spans the River Brenta as it emerges from a mountain valley onto the Venetian plain.

Pakistan has sealed the main checkpoints at the border, so the way to get in is most often through one of a hundred back doors, over the narrow smuggler trails, around the coiling mountain cliffs, onto the parched floor of the desert.

When Jackie Chan leaps from a mountain wall onto a passenger balloon that happens to be passing by -- this amazing stunt occurs in his 1986 "Armor of God" -- there is no question that he is actually doing it; the risk is real, and the sense that death and disaster are genuine possibilities informs not just the scene itself but the whole sense of Mr. Chan's work.

One of the deadliest landslides in U.S. history was unleashed when part of a mountain collapsed onto a rain-sodden slope, sending a wall of mud shooting through a Washington state neighborhood, according to a federal landslide expert.

The trail circles the mountain, emerging onto open moorland near Fairy Castle.

For 10 years, the soft-spoken activist has fought a ski resort's expansion plans in the San Francisco Peaks that include clear-cutting 74 acres of forest and piping treated sewage effluent onto a mountain to make snow.