Andrew Bird

I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

American Musician

Fidel Castro

General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.

Statesman

Sarah Hall

Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.

English Writer

Jonathan Miles

A combination of stir-fry and salad, Lok Lak is a popular staple in Cambodia. It's usually made with beef, but in olden times, in the country's mountainous areas, venison would've gone sizzling into the wok.

Jeremy Wade

My background is very much tropical rainforests. We did a lot in the earlier series in places like the Amazon and the Congo. Almost as an antidote to that, I quite like more open, mountainous regions.

Iqbal Quadir

A military or government hierarchy is anathema to the dispersed population and diverse tribes of mountainous Afghanistan.

Bangladeshi Businessman

Donovan Mitchell

I didn't want to go see mountainous areas as a kid - I wanted to be around town, around New York, around Connecticut.

American Athlete

James Hogg

Without the shepherd's dog, the whole of the open mountainous land in Scotland would not be worth a sixpence.

Scottish Poet

H. P. Lovecraft

Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent.

American Novelist

Use 'mountainous' to describe areas with many or large mountains, often for scenery or locations.

Geographic Use

'Mountainous' often refers to landscapes that may be difficult to traverse due to elevation changes.

Physical Geography

In literature, 'mountainous' can symbolize majesty, obstacles, or an adventurous spirit.

Symbolic References

Describing a location as 'mountainous' often suggests natural beauty and a picturesque setting.

Natural Beauty

Used in travel, 'mountainous' implies potential for outdoor activities like hiking or climbing.

Travel Context

Metaphorically, 'mountainous' describes tasks or challenges that seem overwhelming, like a mountain to climb.

Metaphorical Use

'Mountainous' can emphasize the size or difficulty of something, making it seem larger than life.

Emphasize Scale

The word amplifies the intensity of a situation, feeling, or challenge when used figuratively.

Intensity Amplifier

 He disguised himself and took a perilous journey through China's mountainous tea regions, eventually smuggling tea trees and experienced tea workers into Darjeeling, India. From there, the plant spread further still, helping drive tea's rapid growth as an everyday commodity.

The history of tea -...

 roughest ocean in the world and then they come back to hear this kind of blizzard snow-covered mountainous island to breed and you meet them and they're just totally unfazed hello some of these adults might not have set foot on land for five months to see their chicks and

Go Inside an Antarctic...

 trekking through the mountainous landscapes of my platoon ancestors on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan taking some photos myself ironically of people who were then were suffering through a devastating drought and I remembered these people but a great

The stories of water PIPE...

 where the tiger is going to live in Sumatra forever for one reason and one reason only their mountainous and you can't put a palm oil plantation there so here we go they're in these beautiful mountains beautiful jungle one of the most

Steve Winter: On the...

 is moving to curb the number of climbers other reforms will be needed to keep the world's most coveted mountainous peak in sagramonte a national park clear of trash about maybe tomorrow a pediment and the units are dispersed emerging

Clearing Everest's Trash...

 To reach more young people in more communities, in more places around the world. And we want to dream big. Could every school, everywhere in the world, no matter how remote or mountainous, or even if it's in a refugee camp,

How we can help young...

 surface of Pluto some of the ice could get heated turning directly into gas Pluto could be a mountainous world of exotic ice and primordial rock gases spewing out of its surface it may look

What We Know About Pluto...

 are twice as likely to die as women are at any age. But there is one place in the world where men live as long as women. It's a remote, mountainous zone, a blue zone, where super longevity

The secret to living...

 has taken to climbing through the trees the Goodfellows tree kangaroo a rather peculiar looking marsupial with its reddish brown fur and long rounded claws it is endemic to the mountainous

4 Adorable Animals That...

 To make sure my survives this journey, I need to fix those cracks. And that means heading inland in search of a rare tree. The interior of the island is so mountainous