Vertiginous waterfalls pound down their slopes and are swallowed up in the forest.
Up close, they were startlingly green, their slopes covered by trees, bushes, and flowering plants.
Squaw Valley and Snowbird had also conducted reduction work on their slopes before their in-bound fatalities occurred.
Eighteenth-century British landscapes often had such buildings dotted about their slopes, styled as temples, grottoes, and Merlinesque cottages.
Whole regions the Indonesian archipeligo, Central America are dotted with active volcanoes, their slopes crowded with farms and towns.
But soon after he was declared cancer-free in 1997 he was cycling up mountains and plunging down their slopes.
While resorts hope to entice skiers to their slopes, industry insiders wonder what they can do to keep skiers enthusiastic year after year.
Within the city walls are the seven hills, their summits flattened through the ages but their slopes still steep and toilsome.
The Mizo Hills rise to about 7,000 feet (2,125 metres), and their slopes are covered with thick evergreen forest containing valuable timber and bamboo.
Around their slopes are ranged many of the mosques and other historic landmarks that were collectively designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985.
And yet that's why the men might want to keep her off their slopes, apparently — to pre-empt the possibility that she might beat one of them.
