At Finse station, passengers climb down to the platform with packs and sturdy boots, their breath visible in the cold mountain air.
Throw in an unexpected dunking in a cold mountain stream and a competitor can lapse into uncontrollable shivering and incoherence.
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Meanwhile, there was some good news for Minghella's Cold Mountain, which has been chosen as the opening film for the 54th Berlin International Film Festival.
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He added that McCain's surge among the electorate indicates that Americans are seeking a reformer -- "a clean, cold mountain stream" to wash away the taint of special interests.
But as good as parts of this film are - the battle scenes, the Law and Portman vignette, Seymour Hoffman's frisky clergyman - Cold Mountain cannot overcome the problems of its central uninspiring romance.
Sunburst, perched in the mountains of the Pigeon River valley in the shadow of Cold Mountain, the setting for the novel of the same name, sells 65% of its products, which include fillets and trout eggs, to high-end grocery chains Whole Foods and the Fresh Market, among others.
Sunburst, perched in the mountains of the Pigeon River valley in the shadow of Cold Mountain, the setting for the novel of the same name, sells 65% of its products, which include fillets and trout eggs, to high-end grocery chains Whole Foods (nasdaq: WFMI - news - people ) and the Fresh Market, among others.
But trust me when I say that no mountain blast of cold air managed to move his hair when I worked for him.
But WikiLeaks, which is known for publishing state secrets, apparently has found a new home for its files: A Cold War bunker, inside a Swedish mountain, that's been described as fit for a "James Bond" movie.
Equally unfamiliar but more immediately palatable is a dish of cold soba noodles with tororo, a kind of mountain yam.
This loop also passes through the Sasso San Gottardo, a demilitarised tunnel that is part of a network of clandestine Swiss Army caves and tunnels built into the mountain and used as bunkers during WWII and the Cold War.
Ice palaces have been a winter feature of Saranac Lake since 1898, fitting for a quaint mountain village where winter temperatures can plunge to minus 30 during cold snaps.
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