mountainside
the side or slope of a mountain.
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It ran for more than a third of a mile, was deep enough to expose the mountainside, and threw a massive cloud of snow skyward.
That may be because you can go faster in shorter races, and intensity is a key cause of fatigue—particularly if you’re hammering down quad-busting mountainsides.
We had entered the Argentière basin across a low point in the ridgeline called the Col des Cristaux—which in English translates to Crystal Pass—before traversing laterally across the mountainside.
Oh, and there was a guy in a jet suit gliding up a mountainside.
These Were the 15 Most-Read Singularity Hub Stories of 2020 | Singularity Hub Staff | December 26, 2020 | Singularity HubAs a young reporter, Jan Morris was on the mountainside, at 22,000 feet, when the first expedition in history reached the top of Mount Everest.
Jan Morris, artful travel writer who broke many boundaries, dies at 94 | Matt Schudel | November 20, 2020 | Washington Post
When Hanifa reached what seemed a safe place on the mountainside, she called her sisters.
Hanifa's Story: Her Five Sisters Taken by ISIS to Be Sold or Worse | Christine van den Toorn | August 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTOrange parka-clad instructors escorted Marines up and down the mountainside.
Homefront Veterans: Skiing With Wounded Warriors | John Kael Weston | February 17, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTAs superheated liquid rock and gas gushed down the mountainside, an estimated 12,000 local people perished within 24 hours.
The Year Without Summer and Climate Change Today | Mark Hertsgaard | March 2, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTEveryone ascends via the same route, clipping into ropes stitched up the mountainside—six miles of it—all the way to the top.
Mount Everest Suffers From Too Many Climbers and Deteriorating Conditions | Nick Heil | May 23, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTHe had tunneled into the mountainside where he stored all this weaponry.
Against the mountainside there seemed to hang one bunch of flame like a star, large, red, and weird.
Mrs. Falchion, Complete | Gilbert ParkerDont you know they carry down the mountainside and into the city the finest water of the West Indies?
Gardens of the Caribbees, v. 1/2 | Ida May Hill StarrMother and uncle rose from their seats and the whole group started down the mountainside.
Maezli | Johanna SpyriThey climbed out of the canyon and out onto the grassy slope of the mountainside.
Space Prison | Tom GodwinThe scrambling noise was still coming down the mountainside, growing louder and louder, but with no one breaking into view.
Motor Matt's Mystery | Stanley R. Matthews
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