The payoff comes after one last lift ride up to the top of the mountain ridge.
The trail along the mountain ridge led us past an extraordinary white rock that jutted out from the hillside, looking like a huge, triangular, diving platform.
Shin learned in late December that on Jan. 2, his crew of sewing-machine repairmen and some of the seamstresses would be escorted to a mountain ridge on the eastern edge of the camp.
The mountain passes and ridge tops of the Trans Pecos have the highest average wind speeds in Texas.
He also said that "no-one had any difficulty" while descending the scree slope of the mountain's east ridge.
As I reluctantly trudged my way further up the misty mountain towards the western ridge above Chele La, hundreds of large white Darchor prayer flags fluttered in the fierce winds that buffeted the exposed slopes.
As details of Sharp's death became public it emerged that 40 climbers had passed him, making no attempt to save the stricken climber as he lay stranded in the scant shelter of a rock alcove on the mountain's northeast ridge.
The "amethyst mountain" is a massive ridge that stretches away northwest of Tafraoute.
The mountains in the state's northwest region roll off the southern tip of the Rocky Mountains, and a maze of mountains and valleys funnel the wind into extreme speeds by the time they pass over ridge crests and mountain tops of the Guadalupe and Davis mountains.
That's remarkable considering that "mountain grapes" in the U.S., such as those from Ridge's famous Monte Bello vineyard, grow at, say, 1, 300 to 2, 600 feet.
After putting the finishing touches on installations in the Dub's Dread area, households in Piper Schools, Delaware Ridge, Painted Hills, Open Door and Arrowhead will be next on deck to sign-up for Mountain View's nascent TV and internet services.
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