"Roads are blocked and rescuers have to climb the mountains to reach hard-hit villages, " Li Fuchun, head of Yunnan's Luozehe town, was quoted as saying.

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People come here for all sorts of reasons: to ski, climb and hike on the mountains, to raft and kayak the rivers, to camp among the trees, or explore on their mountain bikes.

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But Armstrong has no more mountains to climb, no more Tour de Frances to win.

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In other parts of the world, the devoted nail themselves to wooden planks or climb mountains in their bare feet.

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In the eighth expedition he went as a government liaison officer with the Swiss expedition to "study the mountain" hoping that this attempt too would fail so that he could be the first person to climb one of the tallest mountains in the world.

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Like mountains, you have to climb them.

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From stage seven onwards, the race heads for the Jura mountains of eastern France, before going into the Alps and a punishing climb to the summit of Avoriaz.

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Soon, I will climb to a cruise altitude of 15, 500 feet to clear the highest of the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

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