Both loved the out-of-doors, including mountain climbing and horseback riding.

The term is often used to refer to activities with some potential for physical danger, such as skydiving, mountain climbing and or participating in extreme sports.

An additional attraction of the mountain is rock climbing.

When the term first surfaced circa the late 1980s / early 1990s, it was used for adult sports such as skydiving, scuba diving, surfing, rock climbing, snow skiing, water skiing, snowboarding, mountain biking, mountaineering, storm chasing, hang gliding, and bungee jumping, many of which were then growing in popularity.

Physically, he was short, stocky, and vigorous, and enjoyed outdoor activities such as hunting, fishing, and mountain climbing.

According to certain authors, the Jabal Qaf of Muslim cosmology is a version of Rupes Nigra, a mountain whose ascent, like Dante's climbing of the Mountain of Purgatory, represents the pilgrim's progress through spiritual states.

* 6-Mohammad Oraz, Iranian mountain climber, Mount Everest Summiter, died while climbing Gasherbrum I.

Like many activities such as mountain climbing, skiing, or sky-diving, there is an element of danger involved.

** 1996 Everest disaster: A sudden storm engulfs Mount Everest with several climbing teams high on the mountain, leaving 8 dead.

Nearby is Mont Moléson, a mountain suitable for climbing, or for the less athletic there is a cablecar to the summit which was rebuilt in 1998.

This annual event held in the summer in Orlando, FL includes competitions in skateboarding, wakeboarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, surfing, moto-x and kayaking.

Berchtesgaden is often associated with the Watzmann, at 2713 m the third-highest mountain in Germany ( after Zugspitze and Hochwanner ), which is renowned in the rock climbing community for its Ostwand ( East Face ), and a deep glacial lake by the name of Königssee ( 5. 2 km² ).

Trollveggen is Europe ’ s tallest vertical, overhanging mountain face, with several very difficult climbing routes.

The confusion is easy to understand, Pupin himself claims that he first thought of the idea of loading coils while climbing a mountain in 1894, although there is nothing from him published at that time.

None of Dr. Cameron's personal records of his involvement with MKUltra survive, since his family destroyed them after his death from a heart attack while mountain climbing in 1967.

Visiting old ghost towns is popular, as is wilderness trekking and mountain climbing.

These newcomers were characterized as being idle trust funders who were drawn to the town for a casual life style and outdoor excitements such as hang gliding, mountain climbing, and kayaking.

Page's fantasy role involved climbing up the face of a snow capped mountain near Boleskine House, Loch Ness during the nights of a full moon on December 10 and 11, 1973. The act was meant to show Page on a quest of self enlightenment, and deep understanding, by seeking out the Hermit, a character featured in many Tarot packs.

Some sources give Achiktash as the Kyrgyz name for this 7, 134 m mountain on the border with Tajikistan, but it seems that Achiktash, or more properly Achik-Tash, is the name of a plateau and a base camp at an altitude of 3, 600 m on a popular northern climbing route to Lenin Peak, which starts in the southern Kyrgyz city of Osh, a day's drive north of the border.

A tourist mecca, the Dolomites are famous for skiing in the winter months and mountain climbing, hiking, climbing and Base Jumping, as well as paragliding and hang gliding in summer and late spring / early autumn.

Instead of climbing the great mountain, Hercules used his superhuman strength to smash through it.

The car park in the village provides the easiest access route for climbing Moel Hebog, the mountain which directly overlooks the village.

* Dana Design, a small manufacturer of backpacks for mountain climbing

There are well-documented climbing routes of varying degrees of difficulty up the many faces of the mountain.

The resort also has a bustling summer timetable including mountain biking, golf, walking and caving amongst others.

Activities along Route 62 include wine tours, safari drives, tribal art, cultural tours, museums, hiking, mountain climbing, 4x4 routes, canoeing, horse riding, ostrich riding, fishing, caving, and even Skydiving.

Lukina jama, the deepest mountain cave in Croatia and one of the deepest in southeast Europe with a depth of 1392 m, discovered in 1992 in the Hajdučki kukovi landscape by a local caving enthusiast named Ozren Lukić who joined a mountain division during the war ( 1991 – 1995 ) as a volunteer and got killed by a sniper in 1992.

In and around the village all mountain sports are practiced, such as paragliding, walking, cycling, canyoning / caving, mountain climbing, mountain biking, and more.

He left Majar to meet with Uzbeg Khan traveling court ( horde ), which was in the time near Beshtau mountain.

The highest point is the top of the mountain Khan Tengri, on the Kyrgyz border in the Tian Shan range, with an elevation of + 7, 010 meters ; the lowest point is the bottom of the Karagiye depression at-132 m, in the Mangystau province east of the Caspian Sea.

Genghis Khan usually fasted, prayed and meditated on this mountain before his campaigns.

The Tomb of Baba Kuhi sits atop a mountain overlooking the city, and the tomb of Karim Khan Zand is at the Pars Museum of Shiraz.

This region is studded with large lakes, e. g. Uvs 720 m above sea level, Khyargas, Dorgon and Khar 1, 170 m, and traversed by various mountain ranges, of which the principal are the Tannu-Ola Mountains, running roughly parallel with the Sayan Mountains as far east as the Kosso-gol, and the Khan Khökhii mountains, also stretching west and east.

Among the filming locations were Lone Pine, Calif., Buffalo Flats in Malibu, Calif., the Paramount Ranch in Agoura, Calif., and the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, Calif. For the climactic half-hour battle sequence at the end of the movie, an elaborate set was built in the Iverson Gorge, part of the Iverson Movie Ranch, to depict Mogala, the mountain stronghold of Mohammed Khan.

To the east, the mountain range enters the districts of Dera Ghazi Khan ( in Punjab ) and Dera Ismail Khan ( in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa ), and approaches the Indus River near Mithankot in the Rajanpur District of Punjab.

The mountain Burkhan Khaldun in the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area is considered sacred, and assumed to be the birthplace of Genghis Khan.

Nauroz Khan became Nawab and leader of the Zehri tribe in the Jhalawan area of Kalat at a time before the introduction of electricity or motor vehicles, head of a largely nomadic people in a harsh mountain / desert environment, but with a rich tradition of Baluchi, Persian and Muslim culture.

On the southeastern side of the Osh fortress is a well-proportioned mountain called Bara-Koh, where, on its summit, Sultan Mahmud Khan built a pavilion.

In 1594 a very strong Tatar raid, carried by about 20, 000-30, 000 men led by the Khan of Crimea, Ğazı II Giray ( Gazi Gerej II ) plundered Pokucie and moved to Hungary through mountain passes, in order to plunder Habsburg lands.

For example in Mongolian Shamanism, the name of the most sacred mountain, the rumored birthplace and final resting spot of Genghis Khan, is also Burkhan Khaldun.

The mountain itself and / or its proximity areas are rumored to be the birthplace of Genghis Khan, as well as the purported location of his tomb.

The mountain is located in the 12, 000 km² Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area established in 1992.

It is considered the most sacred mountain in Mongolia, because it was first designated as sacred by Genghis Khan, although it previously had had strong religious significance prior to Genghis Khan making it such a powerful landmark.

Khan Tengri or Hantengri Peak (, ) is a mountain of the Tian Shan mountain range.

Khan Tengri is the second-highest mountain in the Tian Shan, surpassed only by Jengish Chokusu ( formerly known as Peak Pobeda ) ( 7439 m ).

* Alex Gavan's Khan Tengri 2004 Expedition ( one of the best personal pages related with this mountain )