She had long loved vacationing in Switzerland among the green valleys and vast peaks of Mount Eiger.
Spirits bolstered, we made the 600m climb up the vast granite peak, sleeping fitfully on a small ledge while listening to Pink Floyd's The Wall… "Is there anybody out there?" There was.
These are not the vast yellow peaks bristled with marram grass that typify some dune systems.
From their dwellings the town below appeared even smaller, dwarfed by vast snowy peaks in the distance.
Stop frequently to gawp at the breathtaking landscapes of 4,000-metre 4,000-metre snowfields and séracs (tumbling cliffs of ice).
Wu was born and raised in the far-western region of Xinjiang, home to vast plains and peaks that create natural wind tunnels, with gusts so ferocious that they can sweep trains from their tracks.
The vast sweep of peaks runs for 2,400 km (1,500 miles) crossing or abutting five countries, and separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.
The vast majority of peaks for both Ubx and Hth fall within 2kb of the assigned genes TSS (Supplementary Figure S4 and S5), making target gene assignment straightforward, though an obvious caveat with this approach is that we cannot guarantee that a binding site is regulating the nearest TSS.
We found that, although 45 of the 945 peaks found in vhl mutants overlapped >50 % with the wild-type peaks (Additional file 12), the vast majority of these peaks did not overlap.
And hydrodam operators should consider turning off the turbines, which wound or kill eels, for a few hours on autumn nights during the peak of vast unseen migrations of the adult fish to the sea.
