DEEP red gashes scar the mountainsides around Palmital, a small town in Costa Rica's Pacific cordillera.
At dawn on Sunday, September 18th, a blanket of clouds hung over the tawny grass mountainsides around Missoula, Montana.
These 62 people made up the vanguard of a larger plan to move much of the Haitian population from dangerous ravines and mountainsides around the devastated capital, Port-au-Prince, before the rainy season hit.
I could see mountainsides all around.
Once we emerged above the tree line, icefalls appeared on mountainsides all around us.
Icicles were hanging from the mountainside, and plaques around every hairpin turn recalled those fellow travelers, most of them soldiers, who had "left for their heavenly abode" after plunging over the precipice inches from the loose stones that made up the road.
Where Not quite as expensive as neighbouring Courchevel, this chalet-style resort is actually a collection of hamlets spread around the mountainside.
As tense as a clenched fist and just as communicative, Fausta (Magaly Solier), the heroine of "The Milk of Sorrow," scuttles around her mountainside neighborhood in Lima, peering from beneath bangs like guillotine blades.
