In the Appalachian coalfields, locals fight the mountaintop-removal strip mining that has shattered peaks and buried more than a thousand miles of headwater streams.
"It starts gently, all meadows and butterflies and ends with you on top of this gnarly fearsome mountain peak, surveying a shattered landscape below".
Property prices in Hong Kong have tumbled 65percentt from their 1997 peak, shattering consumer confidence and fueling a deflationary trend.
'The mountain can be fickle,' says Edwin, as he clambers over the shattered boulders beneath Low's Peak, one of several rock towers that make up Kinabalu's summit.
But that myth has been shattered; prices have fallen 2.5to6.5percentent from their peak in 2007.
[9.1] Firstly, rocks may be shattered by lightning [9.2] as it strikes high peaks during thunderstorms.
Dan Millman was 20 years old, at the peak of his gymnastics career, when he shattered his right leg in a motorcycle accident.
Laura Palmer's murder shattered the seemingly quiet façade of the town of Twin Peaks.
One of the most brilliantly devised abstractions of Overlook Mountain (1959) could be described as a shattered piece of blue glass, through which one can peek at the peaks, with a palette of primary, secondary, black and brown.
Lombard was at the peak of her popularity; her death stunned the nation and left husband Gable emotionally shattered.
