Sentence examples for single mountain from inspiring English sources

But how do you even measure a single mountain, for example?

FRANK REISMAN The Perfect Daddy When Frank Reisman was single, mountain climbing was his passion.

Tagimoucia, a crimson and white flower, grows mainly on a single mountain ridge in Fiji.

To define a single mountain or group of mountains as a "line," however, implies a process of abstraction.

Two subspecies are recognized within its tiny distribution, with the more recently described G. g. oreas being entirely confined to a single mountain in eastern Panama.

For six months heavy snow cuts off the single mountain road that connects the region to the rest of the country.

Here, we explore the cytotype distribution of S. carniolicus sensu lato in the Eastern Alps on different spatial scales, i.e. macro-scale (entire Eastern Alps), meso-scale (within each of the 100 investigated single mountains) and micro-scale (immediate environment of each of the roughly 3000 individuals).

Covering 100 square miles (260 square km), Rainier is surrounded by the largest single-mountain glacier system in the United States outside Alaska.

The huge ski area at Val d'Isère -- more than 20,000 acres compared with about 5,200 acres for Vail, Colo., the largest single-mountain resort in North America -- entices American tour operators to keep trying.

Throw in plans for a base village with 2,900 condominiums and 2,000 hotel rooms — plus a total of 10,000 acres of skiing, the most of any single-mountain ski resort this side of the Alps — and Revelstoke is surely the biggest news to hit the North American slopes in years.

And sometimes there's no choice: The reduced oxygen levels at high altitudes will tame even the fittest; winding single lane mountain roads bring traffic to a halt; and perhaps for the better, BlackBerrys hardly work.