Right on the slopes of the Koariti.

However, some scenes on the slopes of Mount Doom were filmed on the slopes of Ruapehu.

This is a friction climb, up in Tuolumne Meadows, in the Yosemite high country.

The Jura Mountains are an example of fold mountains.

It results from the adiabatic warming of air which has dropped most of its moisture on windward slopes.

So they suffered defeat in the Battle of Uhud.

This tree grows on the slopes of the Andes, mainly in Peru.

Streaks are common across Mars and new ones appear frequently on steep slopes of craters, troughs, and valleys.

The Arroux rises on the dip slope of the escarpment at the southern end of the department.

Look at the world. You don't see equations carved on to the mountainsides.

Geography Kaysersberg lies north west of Colmar, on the eastern slopes of the Vosges mountains.

Because of the different adiabatic lapse rates of moist and dry air, the air on the leeward slopes becomes warmer than at the same height on the windward slopes.

These are situated either along the coastal strip in the protecting coves or on the slopes and hills of the mountain ranges.

And as you come around the banks in these valleys, the forces can get up to two Gs.

The Ouche rises on the dip slope of the escarpment and flows to the Saône via Dijon.

The city is on a strip of coastal lowland and extends up the lower alpine slopes of the Chugach Mountains.

Reports stated that some of the English dead were still being found on the hillside years later.

Physical geography The region is mainly mountainous, with steep slopes often plunging into the sea.

Some tombs were quarried out of existing limestone clefts, others behind slopes of scree, or were at the edge of rock spurs created by ancient flood channels.

Much of the works of architecture pertaining to the pre Turkish period of the city and that reached our day date from this period.

El Picacho Hill, a rugged mountain of moderate height, rises above the downtown area several neighborhoods, both upscale residential and lower income, are located on its slopes.

As a child, Earhart spent long hours playing with Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and belly slamming her sled downhill.

Farmers in the Jerusalem region thus built stone terraces along the slopes to hold back the soil, a feature still very much in evidence in the Jerusalem landscape.

The feathers of the flightless Velociraptor may have been used for display, for covering their nests while brooding, or for added speed and thrust when running up inclined slopes.

Coffee and tea are the major cash crops for export, with the high altitudes, steep slopes and volcanic soils providing favourable conditions.

It stands 40 metres above the Forum Romanum, looking down upon it on one side, and upon the Circus Maximus on the other.

The community was located on the slopes of Black Oak Ridge, from which the new town of Oak Ridge got its name.

The village is located above sea level in the High Sele Valley, in a hilly area on the eastern side of the Picentini Mountains, at the foot of the steep slopes of Mount Boschetiello.

Owing to the climate, there is no timberland but crop plants grow in areas provided with water from the mountains, whose annual average rainfall is c. 1000 mm on the peaks and 500 mm on the slopes.

Deep and raw centuries old forests on the hillsides, bald ridges with roughened cliffs, rugged gorges, through which untamed mountain streams rolls.

In the city, the Atlantic Forest areas most preserved are the wellsprings, the tank of Paulista, the Ecological Park Santa Luzia and the slopes of Guaraciaba.

Garrigue shrublands occupy the non agricultural portions coastal plain and coastal escarpments, with Sarcopoterium spinosum , along with Asphodelus microcarpus and Artemisia herba alba , as the predominant species.

History Though it receives its waters from diverse river tributaries from the surrounding hillsides, among those that stand out is the river Rio dos Macacos (today channelized), which introduces salt water.

The exceptions to this occur along the flanks of Charcão and the upper altitudes around Veredas and Matela, zones of older rock (greater than 3 million year), composed of trachybasalt and trachyte that correspond to the formation of the Guilherme Moniz Cinco Picos volcanic complexes.

The southern part of the city occupies the upper terrace of the northern slope of Feleac Hill, and is surrounded on three sides by hills or mountains with heights between and .

The hillsides were originally occupied by a lush Atlantic Forest, though already mixed with species of Araucaria and Planalto Paulista typical of altitude climate.

A couple years ago there was severe flooding that led to thousands of deaths that's directly attributable to the fact that there are no trees on the hills to stabilize the soil.

In addition to this, it reveals a lack of proper housing and urban planning in the biggest Brazilian cities, as local authorities neglect the unrestrained growth of houses and shanty towns on the slopes, further exposing residents to the risk of accidents and even death.

Fox was at that time only 26 years old but had experience in the construction of railways through the mountains of northern Wales and the hillsides of the Pyrenees.

The Domus Aurea (Latin, Golden House ) was a large landscaped portico villa built by the Emperor Nero in the heart of ancient Rome, after the great fire in A.D. 64 had cleared away the aristocratic dwellings on the slopes of the Palatine Hill.

The southward slopes of the Jebel Akhdar occupied by the Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe, a transitional ecoregion lying between the Mediterranean climate regions of North Africa and the hyper arid Sahara Desert.

It inhabits wooded slopes in eastern North America, west to Missouri, south to North Carolina, and north from southern Quebec and the Maritime Provinces in Canada to Minnesota.

Ushuaia is located in a wide bay on the southern coast of Isla Grande de Tierra del Fuego, bounded on the north by the Martial mountain range and on the south by the Beagle Channel.

Among the Galápagos Islands giant tortoises themselves a prime example of a bottleneck the comparatively large population on the slopes of the Alcedo volcano is significantly less diverse than four other tortoise populations on the same island.

Isolated ridges of lava and hydrothermally altered rock, especially in the area of Sherman Crater, are exposed between glaciers on the upper flanks of the volcano the lower flanks are steep and heavily vegetated.