I realise this on day one of the web giant's project to map Machu Picchu, as we amble up to a popular viewpoint and stare into the thick mountain mist cloaking the citadel.
To soften its pungent assault, it is served with a dollop of thick mountain honey.
And when questioned, he said, she offered differing versions of what had happened, first saying that her husband was on Pine Mountain and then conceding that she had picked up Mr. Maggard on that Wednesday night near the winding, vegetation-thick mountain road where the body was found.
She goes into the cage like the rest, is flung downward by gravity like them, must change her body like the rest to fit a crevice to work a lode on her the pick hangs heavy, the bad air lies thick, the mountain presses in on her with boulder, timber, fog, slowly the mountain's dust descends into the fibers of her lungs.
Then this thick, imposing mountain of a man welled up with tears.
The director, Catherine Hardwicke ("Thirteen"), oversees some special effects that look a little cheesy, though the sunless Northwest, thick with mountain forests, is gloomily magnificent.
Owing to its eolian origin, loess occurs on the landscape as relatively thin drapes, a few meters thick, on mountain foot slopes and on river terraces.
These six loosely connected stories and a novella are set in Earley's familiar North Carolina — with its "shriveling" towns and its mountains "thick with balsam and rhododendron".
He thought they might have crawled through the snow, but rejected this idea, as the snow was over half a metre thick across the mountains.
And then they begin to focus on their immediate surrounds - the landscape, the moment of being out in a sweeping jumble of big mountains, thick bush, vast valleys and along the Little Fish river where, hopefully, they will catch a trout or a yellowfish.
