This 500m-high fang of rock dominates the massif, and it is arguably the most striking peak in Spain.
Two people caught in the avalanche on the Mont Blanc massif were found alive in the snow afterward.
As they trim the grassy slopes of heather and gorse, they also open up spectacular views across the massif.
And so he climbed Mount Vinson Massif and he now is the oldest Japanese person to do the Seven Summits, okay.
Italy and Switzerland are preparing to make or rather to recognise alterations to the border that runs through the Monte Rosa massif of the Alps.
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Despite the army's efforts, it retains a base at Sumapaz, a mountainous massif to the south that lies within the capital's administrative boundary.
Despite what romantically minded locals may say, the name of the massif has nothing to with the pink blush its peaks acquire at sunset.
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Despite personal links to the area, she is regarded as an outsider: her father, Jacques Delors, one-time head of the European Commission, is from the Massif Central.
So the number one on Google Trends when I first checked it was Vinson Massif, which is the actually the name of the highest mountain in Antarctica.
The massif's two highest peaks, Nelion and Batian, rise to more than 17, 000 feet, with 1, 000-foot-vertical walls leading to their summits and the famous Diamond Couloir in between.
He said the soldier from the French Foreign Legion was killed as special forces hunted militants hiding in the Ifoghas Massif - a remote mountain region in the Sahara.
In the context of the Massif Central and the Tarn Gorge, it is a colossal piece of land art that completes the landscape, arguably making it better, adding majesty to the serenity of the hillscape.
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Five hours later we were climbing snow slopes to the base of Cerro Standhardt (just under 9, 000 feet tall), the shortest of three peaks rising in increasing height and elegance on the Cerro Torre massif.
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From the 16, 000-foot summit of Point Lenana, one of three peaks that comprise the Mount Kenya massif, we can see Kilimanjaro's shiny white dome rising to the south, the blue of the Indian Ocean lying to the east, and a lush green canopy of jungle spreading to the north.
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