But can North Korea — isolated, autocratic, impoverished and mountainous — ever escape the ghosts of famines past?
Soldiers also said that it appeared that some of Al Qaeda supporters might have escaped over the mountainous border into Pakistan, traveling on mules.
The strategic location of Mohmand, a mountainous, heavily forested area with easy escape routes to Afghanistan, makes it relatively easy for the Taliban to organize men and weapons.
A mountainous, heavily forested area with easy escape routes to Afghanistan, Mohmand is a strategically important region where the Taliban have managed to organize men and weapons with relative ease.
In "The Decision" (1947), a green goat with a question mark hovering over its head faces a road that winds through a mountainous, mazelike terrain with no obvious escape route.
A government official said that militants in the Mohmand region, a mountainous, heavily forested area with easy escape routes to Afghanistan, have largely been confined to a small area that adjoins Pakistan's Bajaur tribal area and Afghanistan's eastern Kunar Province.
Arsal, 16 miles from the Syrian border, serves as a temporary home to thousands of refugees crossing from Syria to escape hostilities in the mountainous Qalamoon region.
The mountainous Tamazight-speaking area had often escaped the sultan's control.
Muhammad told me that his most memorable job came in December , 2001 when he was part of a large I.S.I. operation intended to help jihadi fighters escape from Tora Bora — the mountainous region where bin Laden was trapped for several weeks, until he mysteriously slipped away.
There's also no escaping the significance of the mountainous landfill — the graveyard for what remains of the twin towers — that gives the novel its title.
