Machu Picchu is a pre-Columbian Inca site situated on a mountain ridge above the Urubamba Valley in Peru.

In 1909 Kourouniotes excavated an area at the east of the mountain and beneath the summit, the site of the hippodrome, stadium, and bathhouse.

While a hike up the Snake Path on the eastern side of the mountain ( access via the Dead Sea Highway ) is considered part of the " Masada experience ," a cable car operates at the site for those who wish to avoid the physical exertion.

Reaching the wreck, Louis threads the shadow wire through the crashed ship and uses it to tether the ship to the police station, and then continues to pull the wire onward, up to the summit of " Fist-of-God ", the enormous mountain near their crash site.

However the most important site of worship to Tlaloc was on the peak of Mount Tlaloc, a 4100 metres high mountain on the eastern rim of the Valley of Mexico.

Mount Uhud is a mountain north of Medina which was the site of the second battle between Muslim and Meccan forces.

Goat Rocks dome was the site of the bulge in the 1980 eruption, and it was obliterated in the major eruption event on May 18, 1980 that destroyed the entire north face and top of the mountain.

* Machu Picchu ( Quechua: Machu Pikchu, " Old mountain ") a pre-Columbian Inca site located 2, 400 meters ( 7, 875 ft ) above sea level believed to be under construction.

On the Western side of the Altiplano divide, about an hour to the West of the La Paz, is the site of the tallest mountain in Bolivia and 9th tallest mountain in the Andes, the Sajama Volcano.

The modern village of San Felice Circeo seems to occupy the site of the ancient town, the citadel of which stood on the mountain top ; its medieval walls rest upon ancient walls of Cyclopean work of less careful construction than those of the citadel, and enclose an area that measures 200 meters by 150 meters ( 660 by 490 ft ).

Located around 20 km from Ooty, Kalahatty in the mountain ranges of Nilgiris is a world-class site for hang gliding.

The county's geography ranges from high mountain terrain ( Uinta Mountains ) to the fertile Ashley Valley ( site of the county seat ), to a rugged and desolate canyonland which includes the Dinosaur National Monument, to desolate and largely uninhabited hills in the south (" The Bookcliffs " to locals ; officially Roan Plateau ).

Maskelyne proposed measuring the gravitational force deflection induced by the pull of a nearby mountain upon a plumb-bob in 1772 and sent Mason ( who had returned to England ) on a site survey through central England and Scotland to find a suitable location during the summer of 1773.

Henry's Knob, a mountain and site of a former open-pit mining operation for the world's largest deposit of kyanite stands at above sea level.

The site includes a 125, 000 square metre terrace, partly artificially constructed and partly cut out of a mountain, with its east side leaning on Kuh-e Rahmet (" the Mountain of Mercy ").

The city was known as the site " where cotton meets corn ," referring to its location along the cultural boundary between the mountain communities of Southern Appalachia to the north and the cotton-growing states to the south.

The top of this small mountain is the site of several very substantial communications towers used by local radio stations.

She cited another report that a Kitanemuk Indian referred to the site Campo del Soldado ( Soldier's Camp ), " which was where the soldiers stayed when they cut timber from a mountain they called Pinery Mountain, today's Frazier Mountain.

The Sun Valley golf course saw significant improvement in the summer of 2008, with the opening of the new " White Cloud Nine " course on the site of the old Gun Club ( relocated further down along Trail Creek road ), as well as the opening of the " Sun Valley Club ", a full service golf course club house built in the style of the resort's mountain day lodges, replacing a much smaller and older facility.

During the Cold War, the mountain was the site of Cottonwood Air Force Station, an early warning radar installation of the U. S. Air Force.

Hot springs have been used for bathing at least since paleolithic times The oldest known spa is a stone pool on China ’ s Lisan mountain built in the Qin dynasty in the 3rd century BC, at the same site where the Huaqing Chi palace was later built.

CuRvE's vision is more supported by the community than the Western Carolina University " town center " vision, as CuRvE would allow small businesses, while the " town center " would not, and the Old Cullowhee Road area is along a mountain river, and many agree the site is more beautiful than the Cordelia Camp /" town center " site.

Henry's Knob, a mountain near the town of Clover is the site of a former open-pit mining operation for the world's largest deposit of kyanite.

Despite its relatively small size, Navarre features stark contrasts in geography, from the Pyrenees mountain range that dominates the territory to the plains of the Ebro river valley in the south.

Kapisa province is located 80 km north east of Kabul a stark mountain moonscape that for centuries was home to gunmen who preyed on travelers and harassed invaders in the narrow mountain passes.

By contrast the north side of the glen is a stark wall of mountain, the Aonach Eagach ridge.

The blade is described in Inheritance as, " stark white, while the gem within the pommel was as clear as a mountain spring.

They now sit isolated and slowly crumbling away near the south end of the valley, surrounded by many square miles of flat, dried mud and with stark mountain ranges at either side.

The barren, rugged slopes of this mountain range cover an area of close to 21, 000 square kilometers.

According to one of Tolkien's outlines, Tolfalas was originally a far greater island, but in the floods following the Downfall of Númenor it " was almost destroyed, and was left at last like a barren and lonely mountain in the water ".</ div >

Ebal, which is barren and the mountain for proclaiming curses ) amongst other arguments.

Also after some time, the slopes of the lake's caldera rim more or less stabilized, streams restored a radial drainage pattern on the mountain, and dense forests began to revegetate the barren landscape.

The top of the mountain is bare limestone without vegetation or trees, which makes the mountain's barren peak appear from a distance to be snow-capped all year round ( its snow cover actually lasts from December to April ).

In the north, Åkrafjord intersects through a barren and heavily eroded mountain glacier, where the municipality's highest point rises 1, 638 meters above sea level.

That area comprises lowland parishes 200 m above sea-level and mountain parishes 800 m above sea-level, fertile soil in the main valley and barren summits in Rondane and Dovrefjell.

Much of the mountain is barren and rocky, although the area below 2000 m ( 6500 ft ) is largely forested.

Tourism is a growing industry for Wupperthal, particularly during the Namaqualand flower season in August and September, when the seemingly barren mountain slopes become covered in flowers for a few weeks.

Ilocanos occupy the narrow, barren strip of land in the northwestern tip of Luzon, squeezed in between the inhospitable Cordillera mountain range to the east and the South China Sea to the west.

Note: The Russian word " лысая " ( lïsaya ) literally means " bald ", but is used in this case figuratively for a mountain supposedly barren of trees.

The huge cubic cave, measuring 40 metres ( 131ft ) along each side, is to be dug from inside a mountain that has long been revered by the inhabitants of the dusty, barren island to the south of Lanzarote.

The mountain, which has an elevation of 2, 305 feet ( 706 m ) above sea level, is known for its barren sides and distinctive brown-gray color, and can be seen for miles.

Fuji is a cold, lonely, and barren mountain, while Mt.

Kvernberget ( literally " Mill Cliff " or " Mill Mountain ") is a barren mountain formation with a maximum elevation of, on the island of Nordlandet in the town of Kristiansund in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway.

The island features a bleak, barren tundra-landscape devoid of any trees ( except for a few small pockets of mountain birch ), with steep cliff faces on the coast and dramatic mountainscapes in the interior.

Denied this by the priest Grigoris, the refugees retire to the barren slopes of the nearby mountain Sarakina, where they continue to starve.

The main factor is a real saintly priest, Father Fotis who comes to the village to ask for help with hundreds of hungry and dying people and who is turned away from the village and finds a refuge in the barren mountain.

The rest of the mountain is dry and barren.

Was a barren mountain with no human beings

Then to Awdaghust which is a large town, populous and built on sandy ground, overlooked by a big mountain, completely barren and devoid of vegetation.

Though Honeycutt constantly prodded his company commanders to push on, he could do little to coordinate mutual support until the final assaults, when the companies maneuvered in close proximity over the barren mountain top.

Today the mountain is a barren, almost treeless form, virtually devoid of vegetation.

West of Serdio is the desert nation of Tiberoa, west of Tiberoa is the barren desert known as the Death Frontier, north of Serdio are the icy regions of Gloriano and Mille Seseau, with Mille Seseau being a forested mountain, while Gloriano is a snowy desert.