Sentence examples for precipitous mountains from inspiring English sources

This is the outlet of the fabled "great bend" of the Brahmaputra, whose biodiverse forests and precipitous mountains have enticed and challenged explorers for generations.

Precipitous mountains hem in all those slender skyscrapers that, from a high trail, make Hong Kong look like a giant pincushion.

In Faitakis' work, monastic settings, precipitous mountains, and hermetic deserts unite with urban scenes, political unrest, and common ailments to seek resolution in unorthodox ways.

Sikkim is a basin surrounded on three sides by precipitous mountain walls.

Among the disgraced works was "Drinking and Singing at the Foot of a Precipitous Mountain".

According to one frequently told story, bin Laden would drive one of the bulldozers himself across the precipitous mountain peaks, constructing defensive tunnels and storage depots.

According to one frequently told story, the man often drove one of the bulldozers himself across the precipitous mountain peaks, exposing himself to strafing from Soviet helicopter gunships.

"The experience was not physically pleasurable," Mr. Soderlund said of the precipitous mountain course, which gains and loses more than 40,000 feet of elevation.

It begins in familiar style with Bond flooring the accelerator of his Aston Martin and looking quite unperturbed as he weaves in and out of the oncoming traffic on a precipitous mountain road.

Jing's Northern Song landscape style, which used bold compositions and crisply drawn lines to depict precipitous mountain crags, contrasted with the softer and more atmospheric effects favoured by artists in southern China.

Standing on the summit of Scafell, a stubby, precipitous mountain if taken from the wrong angle, he has chosen to descend at random, 'too confident, and too indolent to look around' for a safe route down.