"Riding up La Hourquette d'Ancizan, seeing the ragged mountain in front of me, a slight smattering of snow near the summit, that was the best moment," he says.
No wonder that for the homesick poet, Dorothea Mackellar, her homeland was "a sunburnt country,/A land of sweeping plains,/Of ragged mountain ranges,/Of droughts and flooding rains".
The ragged mountain terrain with its fossilized formations, saturated color, and naked wilderness held inexhaustible fascination for O'Keeffe and was a source of inspiration for most of her artistic career.
— He cuts a tiny figure in the vastness of the upland desert, the expanse of scrub and brush and saguaro cactuses and red ragged mountains.
Its whitewashed villages can pass for Greece; its ragged mountains can stand for Scotland; its winelands can make do for France; the Karoo desert can double for Arizona; the coastal cliff roads can be the Italian Riviera.
Here in the stirring, ragged mountains of northern Montenegro, the Yugoslav Army patrols from the Breza barracks on one side of town, while the Montenegrin special police, dressed in army fatigues and carrying automatic weapons, roam from their barracks in a resort hotel, the Bjelasica, that once catered to skiers.
Sending troops into ragged, barren mountains where the opposition is at home would only move the disadvantages of Vietnam to a new and harsher setting, Mr. Rubin said.
The sea was the dull blue of a cataract, surrounded by small volcanoes, bubbling mud pots, and ragged, blank mountains used for bombing practice by the Navy and the Marines.
The high point of the region, literally, might be the national park's two-year-old Baumwipfelpfad, or "tree-top walk," a raised wooden pathway that stretches through the forest for a little less than a mile, keeping the crowns of immense fir, pine, birch and beech trees at eye level, and offering wide-angle perspectives of the ragged Czech mountains in the background.
The barren northern plains of Tierra del Fuego give way to peat bogs and moss-draped lenga forests that rise into ragged snowy mountains.
I stand there looking through the glass at the runway and the ragged brown mountains beyond.
