Snowbound mountains hug Salt Lake City.
Mr. Zadran ordered aides to use a satellite telephone to summon new supplies of ammunition from stockpiles 70 miles south across snowbound mountains at Khost, another contested city on the Pakistan border.
We arrived at the Talkeetna Air Taxi company and were briefed on our journey above the Ruth and Kahiltna glaciers to the Don Sheldon amphitheatre, a huge snowbound bowl cradled by mountain after stunning mountain.
Forests, mountains, snowbound valleys, fairy-tale castles and shuttered suburbs, the autobahn, the postwar miracle: German history runs through all 40 years of Richter's art.
I got a lift up snowbound Glen Nevis from a mountain rescue Landrover last year (its occupants were not especially risk-averse types), another from a policeman to Fort William in May and one just last week, on Lewis, from a friendly fish-farm worker.
A San Francisco man who died in the Oregon mountains after leaving his snowbound family to seek help was found in a shallow creek, dead of hypothermia, the authorities said.
The couple looked at various homes where the price was right, but the houses were on minuscule lakes and were so far into the mountains they would have been snowbound and inaccessible in winter.
