A scaled-down model of a seaplane hangs above the tables and a volcanic mountainside takes up one wall.
Mary soars in cantatas by Handel, appears to peasant children on mountainsides, pops up iconoclastically in heretical works by feminists.
The terraces carved into the mountainsides fill up with water, which reflects the sky, clouds, rice plants,and algae, resulting in an epic and colorful landscape described by one traveler as "immense, beautiful, and surreal".
In Part 3, as if to atone for their rootless self-absorption, they take up mountainside rice farming.
Floods have torn out mountainsides and stirred up old mining pollution.
Gorse, another import, is creeping up mountainsides while sea trout, introduced to provide a food source and sport for islanders and tourists, is killing off native fish species.
A magnitude 9.0 quake in March 2011 triggered tsunami waves as high as 32 feet, and the water reached four times that height as it raced up mountainsides.
Since 1970, world production has nearly doubled, thanks to mining companies that tear up mountainsides every year in search of it.
You could be forced to wade through swamps, across rivers, and scramble up mountainsides to lay your cable.
The gear she's wearing is substandard given my play style, but I like how the robe and hood makes her look like she's dressed for trudging up mountainsides in blizzards.
