This military victory was achieved with about 300 U.S. boots on the ground in this Texas-sized mountainous land defended by an enemy every bit as fanatical as Islamic State.
Starting with Mr. Nachtwey's famous image of a lone firefighter navigating the mountainous terrain of ground zero, and including scenes of National Guardsmen in New York and in training camps, these photographs concentrate primarily on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Afghan officials depicted a determined and unusually large-scale effort by the Pakistani insurgents to take over Barg-e-Matal district of Nuristan, a remote, mountainous province United States ground forces recently abandoned as part of a plan to concentrate on more easily defended and heavily populated areas.
"You're at high elevation and low altitude in irregular terrain," close to the ground in mountainous areas, "and, oh, by the way, it's on fire".
In many parts of the northern and eastern provinces that have fallen almost entirely under rebel control, extremist groups have been evacuating headquarters, moving military equipment and, in some instances, fleeing to what is considered safer ground in mountainous terrain.
They require constructing two reservoirs on impermeable ground in mountainous country that's safe from large earthquakes.
Amanita regalis is a rare species typically found growing on the ground in mountainous forests, both deciduous and coniferous.
Lenoble et al. (2004) also studied the enhancement of the UV irradiance due to snow cover on the ground in mountainous terrain.
Acapulco's glittering façades hide a city of slums and a hinterland of mountainous poverty, a breeding-ground of guerrillas, drug gangs and death-squads.For the PRI, the Guerrero vote carried two worrying portents for 2006.
Rain falling in mountainous areas sinks into the ground and becomes enriched with nutrients as it moves down the slope.
